falsus

falsus

1. conditional of falsi

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.sus/, [ˈfäɫ̪s̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.sus/, [ˈfälsus]

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

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falsus m (genitive falsī); second declension

1. liar, deceiver

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• “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