English

Adjective

faux ‎(not comparable)

1. Fake or artificial
   • 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 ofthese 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.

Antonyms

• genuine

Derived terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo/
• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

From Old French fauz, faus from Latin falsus

Adjective

faux m ‎(feminine singular fausse, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fausses)

1. false; untrue
2. false; not real

Antonyms

• (not real): vrai, réel, authentique

Adverb

faux

1. badly; inaccurately; untruly

Etymology 2

From Latin falx.

Noun

faux f ‎(plural faux)

1. scythe

See also

• faucille f
• serpe f

Etymology 3

From Old French fail, faus, from Latin fallō, fallis.

Verb

faux

1. first-person singular present indicative of faillir
2. second-person singular present indicative of faillir

See also

• faux-filet

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly related to Ancient Greek χάος ‎(kháos, “abyss, chasm”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fau̯ks/

Noun

faux f ‎(genitive faucis); third declension

1. (anatomy) throat, gullet
2. chasm

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Italian: fauce, foce
• Old Portuguese: foz
• Portuguese: 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “faux”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1982

Middle French

Adjective

faux m ‎(feminine singular fauce, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fauces)

1. Alternative form of faulx

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French faulz, the plural of fault, ultimately from Latin falsus.

Adjective

faux m

1. (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)

1. (Jersey) scythe