faux

Borrowed from French faux. Doublet of false.

• (UK) enPR: fō, IPA^(key): /fəʊ/
• (US) enPR: fō, IPA^(key): /foʊ/
• Homophones: foe, pho
• Rhymes: -əʊ

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.

   Synonyms: cod, mock

   Antonym: genuine

• IPA^(key): /fo/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -o

From Middle French faulx, from Old French fauz, faus, fals, from Latin falsus.

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

1. false; untrue
2. false; not real

   Antonyms: vrai, réel, authentique

• → English: faux

faux

1. badly; inaccurately; untruly

From Middle French faulx, from Old French fauz, from Latin falx, falcem, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelk-, *dʰelg- (“a cutting tool”).

faux f (plural faux)

1. scythe

• faucille f

• serpe f

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

faux

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

• faux-filet

• “faux” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fau̯ks/

faux f (genitive faucis); third declension

1. (anatomy) throat, gullet
2. chasm

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

• This noun only appears in the plural with the exception of the ablative singular.

• Italian: fauce (borrowing), foce
• Occitan: foz
• Old Portuguese: foz
  • Galician: foz
  • Portuguese: foz
• Old Spanish: foz
  • Spanish: hoz

• 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
• The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1982

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

1. Alternative form of faulx

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

faux m

1. (Jersey) false

From Latin falx, from Proto-Indo-European *dhalk-, *dhalg- (“a cutting tool”).

faux f (plural faux)

1. (Jersey) scythe