faute

See also: fauté

French

Etymology

From Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita, feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō. Compare Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese falta. Doublet of faillite.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fot/
  • (file)

Noun

faute f (plural fautes)

  1. error, mistake
    une faute d'orthographea spelling mistake
    C'est la faute à pas de chance..
  2. fault, blame
    c'est de ma fauteI'm to blame (literally, “it's my fault”)
    c'est toujours la faute aux autresother people are always to blame (literally, “it's always other people's fault”)
    il rejette la faute sur son patronhe laid/put the blame on his boss
  3. (law) wrong, misdemeanor
  4. (sports) foul, fault (infraction of the rules)

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Latin

Participle

faute

  1. vocative masculine singular of fautus

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fallita, feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō.

Noun

faute f (oblique plural fautes, nominative singular faute, nominative plural fautes)

  1. fault; error; mistake

Descendants

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