falso

falso

1. neuter of falsu

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalso/ [ˈfɑl.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes: -also
• Hyphenation: fal‧so

From Old Galician-Portuguese falso, from Latin falsus (“deceived”).

falso (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falsas)

1. false

   Antonym: verdadeiro

2. fake

   Antonyms: verdadeiro, xenuíno

3. untrustworthy

   Synonyms: mentirán, mentireiro

falso m (plural falsos)

1. hem of a garment

   Synonyms: basta, ganduxo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “falso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “falso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “falso”, 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), “falso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “falso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

falso

1. first-person singular present indicative of falsar

• IPA^(key): /ˈfal.so/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -also
• Hyphenation: fàl‧so

From Latin falsus, from fallere.

falso (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsi, feminine plural false, superlative falsissimo)

1. false
2. sham

• finto

• vero, autentico

falso m (plural falsi)

1. forgery
2. sham

• → Egyptian Arabic: فلصو (falsu)
• → Turkish: falso

falso

1. first-person singular present indicative of falsare

• solfa

From falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive, trick”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaɫ.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfal.so]

falsō (not comparable)

1. falsely, wrongfully, deceitfully

   Synonyms: falsē, perperam

   Antonym: rēctē

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.18:

     auctorem doctrinae eius [...] falso samium Pithagoram edunt

     They falsely declare that his master was Pithagoras

falsō (present infinitive falsāre, perfect active falsāvī, supine falsātum); first conjugation

1. to falsify

• fallō
• falsus

• Catalan: falsar
• French: fausser
• Italian: falsare
• Old Galician-Portuguese: falsar
  • Galician: falsar
  • Portuguese: falsar
• Spanish: falsar

falsō

1. dative/ablative singular of falsus
2. dative/ablative singular of falsum

• “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
    
• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti

From Latin falsus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalso/

falso (feminine singular falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falsas)

1. 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.”

• falsedat

• Spanish: falso

• Rhymes: -alsu, -awsu
• Hyphenation: fal‧so

From Old Galician-Portuguese falso, from Latin falsus (“deceived”), from fallō (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwel- (“to lie, deceive”).

falso (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falsas)

1. false; untrue; not factual; wrong

   Synonyms: irreal, incorreto, errado, equivocado, inválido

2. false; artificial; fake

   Synonyms: postiço, artificial, de mentira

3. (logic) false

   Synonym: F

4. that which deceives or lies

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ilusório

For quotations using this term, see Citations:falso.

• (antonym(s) of “untrue”): real, correto, certo, válido, verdadeiro
• (antonym(s) of “artificial”): de verdade
• (antonym(s) of “in logic”): verdadeiro, V
• (antonym(s) of “that which deceives”): fiel, leal

• → Malay: palsu
  • Indonesian: palsu
  • Peranakan Indonesian: palsoe
• →? Marathi: फालस (phālas)

falso

1. first-person singular present indicative of falsar

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalso/ [ˈfal.so]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -also
• Syllabification: fal‧so

falso (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falsas, superlative falsísimo)

1. false; untrue

   Synonym: falaz

2. fake; counterfeit

   Synonyms: falsificado, contrahecho, de mentira

• This adjective often goes before the noun in many phrases

• verdadero

falso

1. first-person singular present indicative of falsar

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “falso”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 841

• “falso”, 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