English
fallency
Fallency comes from Latin fallēns ‘deceiving etc’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfallēnsas fallentia‘deceiving etc’
- Englishearliest quotation 1660fallency
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfallēnsas fallentia‘deceiving etc’
- Englishearliest quotation 1660fallency
Earliest quotation: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium: “Maranta enumerates forty cases, in which a negative ought…”
Every English word from Latin fallēns
Today it means
noun An exception (to a rule).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fallēns / fallency