faux
See also: Faux
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French faux. Doublet of false.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: fō, IPA(key): /fəʊ/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) enPR: fō, IPA(key): /foʊ/
- Homophones: foe, pho
- Rhymes: -əʊ
Adjective
faux (not comparable)
- Fake or artificial.
- Synonyms: cod, mock
- Antonym: genuine
- 2008, James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane, The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
- He modernizes the faux-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 (page 392)
- 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 in faux wood.
- 2012, Annie Padden Jubb, David Jubb, LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force (page 196)
- Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.
- 2021 February 7, Daniel Kreps, “Watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skewer Super Bowl Sunday”, in Rolling Stone:
- The pregame crew then showed a pair of faux-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”, in The New York Times:
- Its faux 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.
Derived terms
- faux ami
- faux bois
- fauxcest
- faux contact
- faux Cyrillic
- fauxgasm
- faux gras
- fauxgressive
- fauxhawk
- fauxhemian
- fauxlex
- fauxmance
- fauxminist
- fauxmosexual
- fauxnetic
- Faux News
- faux pas
- fauxpology
- faux queen
- fauxtatoes
- fauxtina
- fauxtograph
- fauxtography
- fauxtomation
Translations
fake or artificial
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fo/, (in liaison) /fo.z‿/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -o
Etymology 1
From Middle French faulx, from Old French fauz, faus, fals, from Latin falsus.
Adjective
faux (feminine fausse, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fausses)
- false; untrue
- false; not real
- Antonyms: vrai, réel, authentique
Derived terms
- démêler le vrai du faux
- être faux comme un jeton
- faire fausse route
- faire faux bond
- fausse couche
- fausse manip
- fausse manœuvre
- fausse modestie
- fausse note
- fausse piste
- faux anglicisme
- faux bonhomme
- faux bourdon
- faux cul
- faux départ
- faux frère
- faux jeton
- faux négatif
- faux pas
- faux plat
- faux positif
- faux séné
- porter à faux
- s'inscrire en faux
- sonner faux
Related terms
- fausser
- fausseté
Descendants
- → English: faux
Adverb
faux
- badly; inaccurately; untruly
Etymology 2
From Middle French faulx, from Old French fauz, from Latin falx, falcem, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelk-, *dʰelg- (“a cutting tool”).
Noun
une faux
faux f (plural faux)
- scythe
Related terms
- faucille f
See also
- serpe f
Etymology 3
From Old French fail, faus, from Latin fallō, fallis.
Verb
faux
- first/second-person singular present indicative of faillir
See also
- faux-filet
Further reading
- “faux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Alternative forms
- fōx
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly related to Ancient Greek χᾰ́ος (kháos, “abyss, chasm”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fau̯ks/, [fäu̯ks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fau̯ks/, [fäu̯ks]
Noun
faux f (genitive faucis); third declension (rare)
- singular of faucēs
Usage notes
The word is rarely used in the singular, and only in the ablative (in poems) and nominative (only attested once).
Inflection
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | faux | faucēs |
| Genitive | faucis | faucium |
| Dative | faucī | faucibus |
| Accusative | faucem | faucēs faucīs |
| Ablative | fauce | faucibus |
| Vocative | faux | faucēs |
Derived terms
- effōcō
- fōcāle
- offōcō
- perfōcō
- praefōcō
- suffōcō
Descendants
Descendants of faux in other languages
- Italian: foce; → fauce
- Old Occitan: foz
- Occitan: foz
- Catalan: fou
- Old Portuguese: foz
- Galician: foz
- Portuguese: foz
- Old Spanish: foz
- Spanish: hoz
References
- “faux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “faux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- faux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1982
- Adams, James Noel. 2013. Social variation and the Latin language. Cambridge University Press. Page 81.
Middle French
Adjective
faux m (feminine singular fauce, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fauces)
- Alternative form of faulx
Norman
Etymology 1
From Old French faulz, the plural of fault, ultimately from Latin falsus.
Adjective
faux m
- (Jersey) false
Derived terms
- faussement (“falsely”)
- faux sîngne (“forgery”)
Etymology 2
From Latin falx, from Proto-Indo-European *dhalk-, *dhalg- (“a cutting tool”).
Noun
faux f (plural faux)
- (Jersey) scythe