The corpus record — Latin

falsus

erroneous, untrue

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Where it lives

De Fato 23 · 46.41/10k
Epicedion in Patrem 1 · 26.39/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 8 · 16.8/10k
Lucullus 30 · 16.67/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 3 · 8.23/10k
Pro Fonteio 3 · 6.61/10k
Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Pro L. Flacco 6 · 5.5/10k
Catilina 5 · 4.69/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
De idolatria 3 · 4.35/10k

Densest 12 of 137 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. falsus — de Vaan

falsus 'erroneous, untrue' (Lex XI1+), faharius 'a forger' (Cato*); falsidicus 'lying' (PL), falsificus 'acting deceitfully' (PL), fakiiurius 'swearing falsely' (PL), — [de Vaan, s.v. falsus, p. 213]

2. falsus — Lewis & Short

falsus, a, um, P. a., from fallo.

Part. and

In the wild

falsum Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 11.5
falsum Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 168
falsam Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.12.1
falsos Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 37.4
falsum Cicero, Lucullus 113.p1
falsum Cicero, Lucullus 34

6 of 488 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. falsus (scan p. 213; entry #518).

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