English

fraudsman

From fraud + -s- + man.

Formed from fraud + -s- + man

Latin fraus ‘deceit’

Old French fraude

Middle English fraude ‘deceptiveness’

English fraud

Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human being, person, man’

Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person’

Old English mann ‘human being, person, man’

Middle English man

English man

Today it means

noun A male fraudster.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fraudsman