Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone. · To fracture. · To commit a mistake or error. · To undergo a page fault.
Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event. · A failing of character; less severe than a vice. · A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which increases one's risk of danger or difficulty. · A strongly undesirable variation of food or drink caused by impurity or contamination.
From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.
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