Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect. · Based on factually incorrect premises. · Spurious, artificial. · Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.
In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal. · To begin a race before being instructed to do so; to do a false start. · To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.). · To counterfeit, to forge.
From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux. The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).
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- Cognate mentionfalssco
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- Cognate mentionvalsnl
- Cognate mentionfalskda
- Cognate mentionfalsusla
- Cognate mentionlesenm
- Cognate mentionlēasang · false
- Doublet mentionfauxen
- Inherited-form mentionfalsenenm
- Derivation mentionfalserfro
- Derivation mentionfalsōla
- Cognate mentionfausserfr
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