faux

Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.

• (UK) enPR: fō, IPA^(key): /fəʊ/

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

faux (not comparable)

1. 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.

• IPA^(key): /fo/, (in liaison) /fo.z‿/

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• Rhymes: -o

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

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

1. false; untrue
2. false; not real

   Antonyms: vrai, réel, authentique

• faux-filet

• → English: faux

faux

1. badly; inaccurately; untruly

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

une faux

faux f (plural faux)

1. scythe

• faucille f

• serpe f

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

faux

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

• “faux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• fōx

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fau̯ks/, [fäu̯ks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fau̯ks/, [fäu̯ks]

faux f (genitive faucis); third declension (rare)

1. singular of faucēs (“throat, gorge”)

The word is rarely used in the singular, and only in the ablative (in poems) and nominative (only attested once).

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• see: fōx

(See also fōx.)

• → Italian: fauce

• “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.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 207

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