dolose

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dolosus; compare dolus.

Adjective

dolose

1. (rare, historical, law) Deceitful, with hidden malice.
   • 1854, Patrick Mac Chombaich de Colquhoun, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law:

     That having been obtained, everything should be restored to the former position, and the dolose party be condemned.

   • 1908, William Warwick Buckland, The Roman Law of Slavery: The Condition of the Slave, page 692:

     Several texts tell us, however, that when the owner was a minor, there is a remedy against the dolose slave.

   • 2009, Eric Descheemaeker, The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study, →ISBN, page 72:

     A dolose act was an act committed with a view to causing damage. […] a dolose act will by construction always be culpable; on the other hand, a culpable act might either be dolose, if the occurrence of the harm was intended, or not, if it was not.

Related terms

• dolus
• dolosity

Anagrams

• dooles, loosed, oodles, soloed, soodle, sooled

Italian

Adjective

dolose

1. feminine plural of doloso

Anagrams

• desolo, desolò

Latin

Etymology

From dolōsus +‎ -ē.

Adverb

dolōsē (comparative dolōsius, superlative dolōsissimē)

1. craftily, cunningly, deceitfully

Adjective

dolōse

1. vocative masculine singular of dolōsus

References

• “dolose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dolose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dolose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.