falsus

Esperanto

Verb

falsus

1. conditional of falsi

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle from fallō (“deceive, trick; mistake”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.sus/, [ˈfäɫ̪s̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.sus/, [ˈfälsus]

Participle

falsus (feminine falsa, neuter falsum, superlative falsissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. deceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed, having been deceived
2. mistaken, having been mistaken, having deceived myself
3. appeased, beguiled, having been appeased
4. sworn falsely, perjured, having been sworn falsely
5. (by extension) false, untrue

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	falsus	falsa	falsum		falsī	falsae	falsa
Genitive	falsī	falsae	falsī		falsōrum	falsārum	falsōrum
Dative	falsō		falsō		falsīs
Accusative	falsum	falsam	falsum		falsōs	falsās	falsa
Ablative	falsō	falsā	falsō		falsīs
Vocative	false	falsa	falsum		falsī	falsae	falsa

Descendants

• Corsican: falzu
• Dalmatian: fuals
• Franco-Provençal: fôx
• Italian: falso
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Lombard: fals
  • Piedmontese: fàuss
• Old French: fals, falt, fro, faus, faux
  • Middle French: faulx
    • French: faux
      • → English: faux
  • Norman: faux
  • Picard: foe
  • → Dutch: vals
  • → Middle English: fals, fauls, vals, faus, fauce (partly)
    • English: false
    • Scots: fause
    • Yola: fause, faulse, valse
    • → Irish: falsa, falsach, fallsa (superseded)
  • → Middle High German: vals, fals
  • → Middle Low German: vals
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: falsu
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: fals
  • Occitan: fals
• Old Galician-Portuguese: falso
  • Galician: falso
  • Portuguese: falso
    • → Malay: palsu
      • Indonesian: palsu
      • Peranakan Indonesian: palsoe
• Franco-Provençal: fôx
• Old Spanish: falso
  • Spanish: falso
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fals
  • Romansch: fauss
• Sardinian: fàlsu, farsu
• Sicilian: fausu, farsu
• → Albanian: fallco
• → Icelandic: fals
• → Old English: fals
  • Middle English: fals, fauls, vals, faus, fauce (conflated with Old French fals)
    • English: false
    • Scots: fause
    • Yola: fause, faulse, valse
    • → Irish: falsa, falsach, fallsa (superseded)
• → Romanian: fals

Noun

falsus m (genitive falsī); second declension

1. liar, deceiver

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	falsus	falsī
Genitive	falsī	falsōrum
Dative	falsō	falsīs
Accusative	falsum	falsōs
Ablative	falsō	falsīs
Vocative	false	falsī

Related terms

• falla
• fallācia
• fallāciloquus
• fallāciōsus
• fallācitās
• fallāciter
• fallāx
• fallēns
• fallō
• falsārius
• falsātiō
• falsātus
• falsē
• falsidicentia
• falsidicus
• falsificātus
• falsificus
• falsiiūrius
• falsiloquium
• falsiloquus
• falsimōnia
• falsiparēns
• falsitās
• falsō
• falsum

 

References

• “falsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “falsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• falsus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• falsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be imbibing false opinions: opinionibus falsis imbui
    
  • to distinguish true and false: vera et falsa (a falsis) diiudicare
    
  • to confuse true with false: vera cum falsis confundere
    
  • to start from false premises: a falsis principiis proficisci
    
  • to rouse a vain, groundless hope in some one's mind: spem falsam alicui ostendere
    
  • to accuse a person of forging the archives: accusare aliquem falsarum tabularum