English
falsum
Falsum comes from Latin falsum ‘an untruth, falsehood, fraud, deceit, lie’, and goes back to fallō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfallō‘deceive, trick’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfalsum‘an untruth, falsehood, fraud, deceit, lie’perfect passive participle of fallō
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfallō‘deceive, trick’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfalsum‘an untruth, falsehood, fraud, deceit, lie’perfect passive participle of fallō
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- ‘to stumble’
through Proto-Italic *falsō
fail, default, falsely, falsetto, 4 more
through Latin fallō ‘deceive, trick’
failure, fault, false, faux, fallacy, fallacious, fallible, falsify, falsity, 7 more
Today it means
noun An arbitrary contradiction, denoted ⊥.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fallō / falsum