fallo

Borrowed from Spanish fallo.

fallo (usually uncountable, plural fallos)

1. (Philippines, law) The dispositive portion of a court's ruling, coming at the end of the ruling.^[1]

• all of, of all

fallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fallar

Back-formation from fallar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɟo/ [ˈfa̠.ɟʊ]
• Rhymes: -aɟo
• Hyphenation: fa‧llo

fallo m (plural fallos)

1. defect; fail

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fallo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fallo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): /ˈfal.lo/
• Rhymes: -allo
• Hyphenation: fàl‧lo

Deverbal from fallare (“to make a mistake”) +‎ -o.^[1] Compare Spanish fallo.

fallo m (plural falli)

1. fault, error

   Synonyms: colpa, sbaglio, errore

   senza fallo ― without fail, doubtless

   essere in fallo ― to be at fault

   cogliere qualcuno in fallo ― to catch somebody out

2. (sports) foul

   fare fallo su qualcuno ― to foul somebody

• fallace
• fallare
• fallire

From Latin phallus, from Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).^[2]

fallo m (plural falli)

1. phallus

From translingual Phallus, from Latin phallus, from Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).

fallo m (plural falli)

1. any member of the Phallus taxonomic genus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fallare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fallo

1. compound of fa', the second-person singular imperative form of fare, with lo

   Fallo ora! ― Do it now!

• folla

Uncertain. According to De Vaan, from Proto-Italic *falsō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”) (with semantic shift "stumble" > "deceive"), and cognate with Sanskrit स्खल् (skhal, “to stumble, fail”), Persian سکرفیدن (sekarfidan, “to stumble”), Ancient Greek σφάλλω (sphállō, “to bring down”), σφάλλομαι (sphállomai, “to fall”), Old Armenian սխալեմ (sxalem, “to stumble, fail”).^[1]

Formerly considered to be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwel- (“to lie, deceive”), but this does not account for the /a/.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfal.loː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfal.lo]

fallō (present infinitive fallere, perfect active fefellī, supine falsum); third conjugation

1. to deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint

   Synonyms: dēcipiō, mentior, frūstror, ēlūdō, dēstituō, fraudō, circumdūcō, circumveniō, ingannō, indūcō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.296–297:

     At rēgīna dolōs – quis fallere possit amantem? – praesēnsit [...].

     But the queen suspected his deceit – Who could be able to delude a lover? – [...].
     (The irony is that a lover can be both extremely perceptive and easily misled.)

2. (reflexive) to mistake, be mistaken, deceive oneself
   • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 11.26:

     Si enim fallor, sum. Nam qui non est, utique nec falli potest; ac per hoc sum, si fallor. Quia ergo sum si fallor, quo modo esse me fallor, quando certum est me esse, si fallor? Quia igitur essem qui fallerer, etiamsi fallerer, procul dubio in eo quod me novi esse, non fallor.

     • Translation by David S. Wiesen

       Well, if I am mistaken, I exist. For a man who does not exist can surely not be mistaken either, and if I am mistaken, therefore I exist. So, since I am if I am mistaken, how can I be mistaken in believing that I am when it is certain that if I am mistaken I am. Therefore, from the fact that, if I were indeed mistaken, I should have to exist to be mistaken, it follows that I am undoubtedly not mistaken in knowing that I am.

3. to escape the notice of; be unknown, unseen, unaware, hidden
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.96-97:

     “Nec mē adeō fallit veritam tē moenia nostra
     suspectās habuisse domōs Karthāginis altae.”

     “Nor does it so escape me, the truth [that] you — [because of] our defenses — have distrusted the homes of lofty Carthage.”
     (Juno uses the negation of litotes to speak to Venus.)

4. to appease, beguile
5. to swear falsely, perjure

• “fallo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fallo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fallo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • if I am not mistaken: nisi fallor
    
  • if I am not mistaken: nisi (animus) me fallit
    
  • unless I'm greatly mistaken: nisi omnia me fallunt
    
  • to deceive a person's hope: spem alicuius fallere (Catil. 4. 11. 23)
    
  • to keep one's word (not tenere): fidem servare (opp. fallere)
    
• fallo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

fallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fallar

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• Syllabification: fa‧llo

Deverbal from fallar. Compare Italian fallo.

fallo m (plural fallos)

1. mistake
2. failure
3. (law) verdict, decision
   • 2015 July 9, “El batería de AC/DC, condenado a ocho meses de arresto domiciliario”, in El País‎^[4]:

     El músico, que pasará los meses encerrado en su casa de Tauranga (en la costa este de la Isla Norte de Nueva Zelanda), escuchó el fallo inexpresivo y con signos de cansancio, según fuentes presentes en la sala.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. ruling
5. (computing) bug, hole (security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit)

fallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fallar

fallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fallir

• “fallo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024