falsus

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Esperanto

Verb

falsus

  1. conditional of falsi

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle from fallō (“deceive, trick; mistake”).

Pronunciation

Participle

falsus (feminine falsa, neuter falsum, superlative falsissimus); first/second-declension participle

  1. deceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed, having been deceived
  2. mistaken, having been mistaken, having deceived myself
  3. appeased, beguiled, having been appeased
  4. sworn falsely, perjured, having been sworn falsely
  5. (by extension) false, untrue

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative falsus falsa falsum falsī falsae falsa
genitive falsī falsae falsī falsōrum falsārum falsōrum
dative falsō falsae 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

  1. liar, deceiver

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative falsus falsī
genitive falsī falsōrum
dative falsō falsīs
accusative falsum falsōs
ablative falsō falsīs
vocative false falsī

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • falsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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
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