falsitas

Latin

Etymology

From falsus +‎ -tās.

Noun

falsitās f (genitive falsitātis); third declension

1. falsehood, falsity, untruth, lie
2. fraud, deceit

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	falsitās	falsitātēs
genitive	falsitātis	falsitātum
dative	falsitātī	falsitātibus
accusative	falsitātem	falsitātēs
ablative	falsitāte	falsitātibus
vocative	falsitās	falsitātēs

Antonyms

• vēritās

Related terms

• falsus, falsum

Descendants

• Aragonese: falsedat
• Asturian: falsedá
• >? Catalan: falsedat
• Extremaduran: falsedá
• Italian: falsità
  • → Maltese: falzità
• Judeo-Italian: פַֿאלְצֵיטַאדַה (falzetada) (Judeo-Roman)
• Leonese: falsedá
• Old French: falseté
  • > Middle French: fausseté (inherited)
    • > French: fausseté (inherited)
    • → English: falsity (semi-learned)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: falsidade
  • Galician: falsidade
  • Portuguese: falsidade
• >? Romanian: falsitate (if not borrowed from Italian)
• Spanish: falsedad

References

• “falsitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "falsitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• falsitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.