faux

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French faux. Doublet of false.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: fō, IPA(key): /fəʊ/
  • (US) enPR: fō, IPA(key): /foʊ/
  • Homophones: foe, pho
  • Rhymes: -əʊ

Adjective

faux (not comparable)

  1. Fake or artificial
    • 2008, James Chandler, ‎Maureen N. McLane, The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
      He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”
    • 2012, Susan Crabtree, ‎Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques (page 392)
      Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all ofthese variations can be produced in faux wood.
    • 2012, Annie Padden Jubb, ‎David Jubb, LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force (page 196)
      Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.

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Translations

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fo/
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  • Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

From Old French fauz, faus from Latin falsus

Adjective

faux (feminine singular fausse, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fausses)

  1. false; untrue
  2. false; not real
Antonyms

Adverb

faux

  1. badly; inaccurately; untruly

Etymology 2

From Latin falx.

Noun

faux f (plural faux)

  1. scythe

See also

Etymology 3

From Old French fail, faus, from Latin fallō, fallis.

Verb

faux

  1. first-person singular present indicative of faillir
  2. second-person singular present indicative of faillir

See also

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly related to Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “abyss, chasm”).

Pronunciation

Noun

faux f (genitive faucis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) throat, gullet
  2. chasm

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Case Singular Plural
nominative faux faucēs
genitive faucis faucium
dative faucī faucibus
accusative faucem
faucim		 faucēs
faucīs
ablative fauce
faucī		 faucibus
vocative faux faucēs
  • This noun only appears in the plural with the exception of the ablative singular.

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Descendants

References

  • faux in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • faux in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • faux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1982

Middle French

Adjective

faux m (feminine singular fauce, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fauces)

  1. Alternative form of faulx

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French faulz, the plural of fault, ultimately from Latin falsus.

Adjective

faux m

  1. (Jersey) false
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin falx, from Proto-Indo-European *dhalk-, *dhalg- (“a cutting tool”).

Noun

faux f (plural faux)

  1. (Jersey) scythe
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