forgery

Etymology

Recorded since 1574; from the verb to forge, from Middle English forgen, via Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricari (“to frame, construct, fabricate”), itself from fabrica (“workshop; construction”), from faber (“workman, smith”).

noun

1. The act of forging metal into shape.
   the forgery of horseshoes
2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
   the forgery of a bond
3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
4. (archaic) An invention, creation.