Fraudé

Fraudé is a term primarily found in French-language contexts, where it functions as the past participle of the verb frauder, meaning to defraud or deceive. As an adjective, fraudé can describe something that has been defrauded or is related to deceit. In practice, it is used to indicate that fraud has occurred or that a document, transaction, or action has been manipulated through deceit. The form fraudé agrees with gender and number (fraudé, fraudée, fraudés, fraudées).

In legal and administrative language, fraudé may appear in phrases such as a fraudulent document or a defrauded account, though la fraude (fraud) is the more common noun for the wrongdoing and frauder the corresponding verb. The term is more often encountered in written French than in everyday speech, and writers typically prefer the noun fraud or the verb frauder to express the concept of deceit or financial wrongdoing. As with many past participles in French, fraudé can function attributively when it directly modifies a noun.

Etymology traces fraudé to the verb frauder, which derives from the Latin fraus, meaning deceit or fraud. The relationship mirrors cognate terms in related Romance languages, such as fraude in French, fraude in Spanish, or fraude in Portuguese, all rooted in the same Latin source.

See also: fraude, frauder, defraud, fraudster, fraudulence.