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faux

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English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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faux (not comparable)

  1. Fake or artificial.
    Synonyms: cod, mock
    Antonym: genuine
    faux pearls inlet in a brooch
    • 2008, James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane, The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry:
      He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”
    • 2012, Susan Crabtree, Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques, page 392:
      Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all of these variations can be produced in faux wood.
    • 2012, Annie Padden Jubb, David Jubb, LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force, page 196:
      Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.
    • 2021 February 7, Daniel Kreps, “Watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skewer Super Bowl Sunday”, in Rolling Stone‎[1]:
      The pregame crew then showed a pair of faux-Super Bowl ads, including an unnecessarily woke Cheez-It commercial and a Papa John’s ad that fully embraces Pizzagaters.
    • 2022 November 21, Julie Creswell, “Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries”, in The New York Times‎[2]:
      Its faux burgers and sausages were landing on dinner plates in homes throughout the United States and on the menu boards of chans like Subway, Carl’s Jr. and Starbucks.

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fo/, (in liaison) /fo.z‿/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle French faulx, from Old French fauz, faus, fals, from Latin falsus.

Adjective

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faux (feminine fausse, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fausses)

  1. false; untrue
  2. false; not real
    Antonyms: vrai, réel, authentique
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Descendants

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  • → English: faux

Adverb

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faux

  1. badly; inaccurately; untruly

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Middle French faulx, from Old French fauz, from Latin falcem, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelk-, *dʰelg- (“a cutting tool”).

Noun

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une faux

faux f (plural faux)

  1. scythe
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Etymology 3

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Inherited from Old French fail, faus, from Latin fallō, fallis.

Verb

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faux

  1. first/second-person singular present indicative of faillir

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unknown. Possibly related to Ancient Greek χᾰ́ος (khắos, “abyss, chasm”).

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Noun

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faux f (genitive faucis); third declension (rare)

  1. singular of faucēs (“throat, gorge”)
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Usage notes

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The word is rarely used in the singular, and only in the ablative (in poems) and nominative (only attested once).

Inflection

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative faux faucēs
genitive faucis faucium
dative faucī faucibus
accusative faucem faucēs
faucīs
ablative fauce faucibus
vocative faux faucēs

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Descendants

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(See also fōx.)

References

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  • “faux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “faux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • faux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 207

Middle French

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Adjective

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faux m (feminine singular fauce, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fauces)

  1. Alternative form of faulx

Norman

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Etymology 1

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From Old French faulz, the plural of fault, ultimately from Latin falsus.

Adjective

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faux m

  1. (Jersey) false
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Etymology 2

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From Latin falx, from Proto-Indo-European *dhalk-, *dhalg- (“a cutting tool”).

Noun

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faux f (plural faux)

  1. (Jersey) scythe
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