English
falsedom
Falsedom comes from Middle English falsedom.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500falsedom
- Englishearliest quotation 2000same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500falsedom
- Englishearliest quotation 2000same form
Earliest quotation: 2000, Peter Barry, Contemporary British Poetry and the City: “Yet once more we enter the falsedom in scarlet…”
Formed from false + -dom
Latin fallō ‘to deceive’
Latin falsus ‘counterfeit, false’
Old English fals ‘false; fraud’
Middle English false
English false
Every English word from Middle English falsedom
Today it means
noun The sphere or realm of falseness.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English falsedom / falsedom