faitour
A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
obsolete
Allas sayd kynge Lot I am ashamed / for by my defaute ther is many a worshipful man slayne / for and we had ben to gyders there hadde ben none hooste vnder the heuen that had ben abel for to haue matched with vs / This fayter with his prophecye hath mocked me
Where it comes from
From Middle English faytour, from Anglo-Norman faitour (cognate with Old French faitor (“doer, maker”), from Latin factor, factōrem, from facere (“do, make”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry faitour (CC BY-SA 4.0).