falsus

falsus

1. conditional of falsi

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.sus/, [ˈfaɫ.sʊs]

falsus m (feminine falsa, neuter falsum); first/second declension

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

First/second declension.

• Corsican: falzu
• Dalmatian: fuals
• Franco-Provençal: fôx
• Italian: falso
• Old French: fals, falt, fro, faus, faux
  • Middle French: faulx
    • French: faux
      • → English: faux
  • Norman: faux
  • Picard: foe
  • → Middle English: fals, false (partly)
    • English: false
    • Scots: fause
    • → Irish: falsa, falsach
  • → Middle High German: vals
    • Cimbrian: baltz
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: falsu
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: fals
  • Occitan: fals
• Old Portuguese: falso
  • Galician: falso
  • Portuguese: falso
• Franco-Provençal: fôx
• Old Spanish: falso
  • Spanish: falso
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fals
• Sardinian: fàlsu, farsu
• → Albanian: fallco
• → Icelandic: fals
• → Middle Dutch: valsch
  • Dutch: vals
  • Limburgish: valsj
  • → Middle High German: valsch
    • German: falsch
      • → Czech: faleš
      • → Romanian: falș
    • Bavarian: foisch
    • Luxembourgish: faslch
    • Yiddish: פֿאַלש‎ (falsh)
    • → Polish: fałsz
• → Middle Low German: valsch, vals
  • → Danish: falsk
  • → Faroese: falskur
  • → Icelandic: falskur
  • → Norwegian: falsk
  • → Saterland Frisian: falsk
  • → Swedish: falsk
• → Norwegian: falsk
• → Old English: fals
  • Middle English: fals, false (conflated with Old French fals)
    • English: false
    • Scots: fause
    • → Irish: falsa, falsach
• → Romanian: fals

falsus m (genitive falsī); second declension

1. liar, deceiver

Second declension.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• falsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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