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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “falso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “falso”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

See fallō.

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 demãdo cõseio alos ppħas falſos ſi ẏrie aramot galáad. e dixieron le ſub. e á prouez ca la dara dios en tu mano. dixo ioſaphat á aq̃ ppħa del criador á q̃en demãdaſſemos cõſejo. dixo el Reẏ acab ſi a una. a q̃ q̃ero ẏo mal. enũqua me dize bien ſi no mal. Micheas el fil de imbla

     [El rey de Israel demandó consejo a los prophetas falsos si iríe a Ramot Galaad, e dixieron-le “Sub e ha provez, ca la dará Dios en tu mano.” Dixo Josaphat “¿Ha aquí propheta del Criador a quien demandassemos consejo?” Dixo el rey Acab “Sí, ha una a que quiero yo mal, e nunqua 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

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• 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):

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• 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]‎^[2] (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