falso
Asturian Edit
Adjective Edit
falso
Galician Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese falso, from Latin falsus (“deceived”).
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
falso m (feminine singular falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falsas)
- false
- Antonym: verdadeiro
- fake
- Antonyms: verdadeiro, xenuíno
- untrustworthy
- Synonyms: mentirán, mentireiro
Derived terms Edit
Noun Edit
falso m (plural falsos)
References Edit
- “falso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “falso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “falso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “falso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “falso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From Latin falsus, from fallere.
Adjective Edit
falso (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsi, feminine plural false, superlative falsissimo)
Synonyms Edit
Antonyms Edit
Noun Edit
falso m (plural falsi)
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Descendants Edit
- → Turkish: falso
Etymology 2 Edit
Verb Edit
falso
Anagrams Edit
Latin Edit
Etymology Edit
From falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive, trick”).
Pronunciation Edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfal.soː/, [ˈfäɫ̪s̠oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfal.so/, [ˈfälso]
Adverb Edit
falsō (not comparable)
- falsely, wrongfully, deceitfully
- Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 18:
- auctorem doctrinae eius [...] falso samium Pithagoram edunt
- They falsely declare that his master was Pithagoras
- auctorem doctrinae eius [...] falso samium Pithagoram edunt
Verb Edit
falsō (present infinitive falsāre, perfect active falsāvī, supine falsātum); first conjugation
- I falsify.
Conjugation Edit
Derived terms Edit
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Descendants Edit
Noun Edit
falsō
References Edit
- “falso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “falso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- falso 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)
- falso 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: opiniones falsas animo imbibere
- to be imbibing false opinions: opiniones falsas animo imbibere
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
Old Spanish Edit
Etymology Edit
From Latin falsus (“deceived, mistaken, false”), from fallō (“I deceive, mistake”).
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
falso (feminine singular falsa, masculine plural falsos, femenine plural falsas)
- false
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 41vb.
- el Reẏ de iſrɫ demádo cóseio alos ppħas falſos ſi ẏrie aramot galáad. e dixieron le ſub. e á prouez ca la dara dios en tu mano. dixo ioſaphat á aq́ ppħa del criador á q́en demádaſſemos cóſejo. dixo el Reẏ acab ſi a una. a q́ q́ero ẏo mal. enúqua me dize bien ſi no mal. Micheas el fil de imbla
- The king of Israel sought the counsel of the false prophets on whether he should go to Ramoth-Gilead, and they said, “Go up and have bravery, for God will give it into your hand.” [But] Jehoshaphat said, “Is there here a prophet of the Creator from whom we may seek counsel?” King Ahab said, “Yes, there is one whom I hate, [for] he never speaks to me [of] good, only evil. [He is] Micaiah son of Imlah.”
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 41vb.
Related terms Edit
Descendants Edit
- Spanish: falso
Portuguese Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese falso, from Latin falsus (“deceived”), from fallō (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwel- (“to lie, deceive”).
Adjective Edit
falso (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falsas)
- false; untrue; not factual; wrong
- Synonyms: irreal, incorreto, errado, equivocado, inválido
- false; artificial; fake
- Synonyms: postiço, artificial, de mentira
- (logic) false
- Synonym: F
- that which deceives or lies
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ilusório
Quotations Edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:falso.
Antonyms Edit
- (untrue): real, correto, certo, válido, verdadeiro
- (artificial): de verdade
- (in logic): verdadeiro, V
- (that which deceives): fiel, leal
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Descendants Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
Verb Edit
falso
Spanish Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Old Spanish falso, from Latin falsus, with preservation of /alC/ and initial /f/, which Coromines & Pascual suppose is the result of learned pronunciation habits.
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
falso (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falsas, superlative falsísimo)
- false; untrue
- Synonym: falaz
- fake; counterfeit
- Synonym: contrahecho
Usage notes Edit
- This adjective often goes before the noun in many phrases
Antonyms Edit
Derived terms Edit
Related terms Edit
Verb Edit
falso
References Edit
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “falso”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 841
References Edit
Further reading Edit
- “falso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014