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falsus
falsus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle from fallō (“deceive, trick; mistake”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfal.sus/
Participle
falsus m (feminine falsa, neuter falsum); first/second declension
- deceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed, having been deceived
- mistaken, having been mistaken, having deceived myself
- appeased, beguiled, having been appeased
- sworn falsely, perjured, having been sworn falsely
- (by extension) false, untrue
Inflection
First/second declension.
| 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
Noun
falsus m (genitive falsī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | falsus | falsī |
| genitive | falsī | falsōrum |
| dative | falsō | falsīs |
| accusative | falsum | falsōs |
| ablative | falsō | falsīs |
| vocative | false | falsī |
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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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “falsus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
- to be imbibing false opinions: opinionibus falsis imbui