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English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromFrenchfaux.Doublet offalse.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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faux (notcomparable)

  1. Fake orartificial.
    Synonyms:cod,mock
    Antonym:genuine
    • 2008, James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane,The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry:
      He modernizes thefaux-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, page392:
      Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all of these variations can be produced infaux wood.
    • 2012, Annie Padden Jubb, David Jubb,LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force, page196:
      Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grapefaux wine.
    • 2021 February 7, Daniel Kreps, “Watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skewer Super Bowl Sunday”, inRolling Stone[1]:
      The pregame crew then showed a pair offaux-Super Bowl ads, including an unnecessarily woke Cheez-It commercial and a Papa John’s ad that fully embraces Pizzagaters.
    • 2022 November 21, Julie Creswell, “Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries”, inThe New York Times[2]:
      Itsfaux burgers and sausages were landing on dinner plates in homes throughout the United States and on the menu boards of chans like Subway, Carl’s Jr. and Starbucks.

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Translations

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fake or artificial

French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromMiddle Frenchfaulx, fromOld Frenchfauz,faus,fals, fromLatinfalsus.

Adjective

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faux (femininefausse,masculine pluralfaux,feminine pluralfausses)

  1. false;untrue
  2. false; not real
    Antonyms:vrai,réel,authentique
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Descendants

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Adverb

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faux

  1. badly;inaccurately;untruly

Etymology 2

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Inherited fromMiddle Frenchfaulx, fromOld Frenchfauz, fromLatinfalcem, fromProto-Indo-European*dʰelk-,*dʰelg-(a cutting tool).

Noun

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une faux

faux f (pluralfaux)

  1. scythe
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Etymology 3

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Inherited fromOld Frenchfail,faus, fromLatinfallō,fallis.

Verb

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faux

  1. first/second-personsingularpresentindicative offaillir

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unknown. Possibly related toAncient Greekχᾰ́ος(khắos,abyss, chasm).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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faux f (genitivefaucis);third declension(rare)

  1. singular offaucēs(throat, gorge)
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Usage notes

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The word is rarely used in the singular, and only in theablative (in poems) andnominative (only attested once).

Inflection

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singularplural
nominativefauxfaucēs
genitivefaucisfaucium
dativefaucīfaucibus
accusativefaucemfaucēs
faucīs
ablativefaucefaucibus
vocativefauxfaucēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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(See alsofōx.)

References

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  • faux”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • faux”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • faux inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008)Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page207

Middle French

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Adjective

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faux m (feminine singularfauce,masculine pluralfaux,feminine pluralfauces)

  1. Alternative form offaulx

Norman

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Frenchfaulz, the plural offault, ultimately fromLatinfalsus.

Adjective

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faux m

  1. (Jersey)false
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Etymology 2

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FromLatinfalx, fromProto-Indo-European*dhalk-,*dhalg-(a cutting tool).

Noun

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faux f (pluralfaux)

  1. (Jersey)scythe
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