Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 673.falsus on page 673
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falsus false
falsus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means false.
Definitions for falsus
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
false, deceptive
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
(of opinions, reports) Erroneous, untrue, false; (of decisions, policy) incorrect, wrong.
- 2
(of persons) Deceived, in error, wrong, mistaken. (b) ~us esse, to be under an illusion (as to).
- 3
Not genuine, sham, spurious, false. (b) (of hopes, fears, suspicions, etc.) ungrounded, unjustified. (c) (of documents) forged. (d) (of notes) not natural (perh., tremolo).
- 4
Improperly so called, pretended.
- 5
Assumed in order to deceive, counterfeited, imitation; also, disguised. (b) (of names) used so as to deceive, assumed.
Sentences with falsus
Latin to English
Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominis imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appelant.Compare To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.
Utinam tam facile vera invenire possem quam falsa convincere.Compare I only wish I could discover the truth as easily as I can expose falsehood.
Omitto quam hic falsus, quam levis.Compare I leave unsaid how false, how trifling these things are.
O miser et infelix dies! o falsus spes! o volucer fortuna! o caecus cupiditas! quam cito ille omnis praetereo!Compare O wretched and unhappy day! O false hope! O fleeting fortune! O blind ambition! how quickly have all those things passed away!
Ego esse quicquam sceptra nisi vano putem fulgore tectum nomen et falso comam vinclo decentem?Compare Should I count sovereignty anything but a name bedecked with empty glamor, a brow adorned with a lying coronet?
Declension table for falsus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | falsus | falsī |
| Gen. | falsī | falsōrum |
| Dat. | falsō | falsīs |
| Acc. | falsum | falsōs |
| Voc. | false | falsī |
| Abl. | falsō | falsīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 476.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 673.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 124.
Bibliography
Allen, Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar. Edited by James B. Greenough, George L. Kittredge, Albert A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D'Ooge. Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1903.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "falsus, falsa, falsum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/falsus-falsa-falsum.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 476.on page 476
