English
falsary
Falsary comes from Latin falsus ‘deceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed,…’, and goes back to fallō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfallō‘deceive, trick’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfalsus‘deceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed, having been deceived’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfalsarius
- Englishearliest quotation 1616falsary
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfallō‘deceive, trick’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfalsus‘deceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed, having been deceived’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfalsarius
- Englishearliest quotation 1616falsary
Earliest quotation: 1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome: “by the Ministers of the Church is exhibited in…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- ‘to stumble’
through Proto-Italic *falsō
through Latin fallō ‘deceive, trick’
failure, default, falsely, fallacy, fallacious, fallible, falsetto, 4 more
through Latin falsus ‘deceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed,…’
Today it means
noun A falsifier of evidence.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fallō / falsary