# faux
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: fō, IPA: /fəʊ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: fō, IPA: /foʊ/
* Homophones: foe, pho
* Rhymes: -əʊ

### Adjective

faux (not comparable)
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* fauxcellarm
* fauxcest
* faux contact
* faux Cyrillic
* fauxgasm
* faux gras
* fauxgressive
* fauxhawk
* fauxhemian
* fauxlanthropist
* fauxlex
* fauxligraphy
* fauxlography
* fauxmance
* fauxminist
* fauxmosexual
* fauxnetic
* Faux News
* fauxpen
* fauxpology
* faux queen
* fauxstalgia
* fauxtato
* fauxtatoes
* fauxthentic
* fauxtina
* fauxtograph
* fauxtography
* fauxtomation
* sourfaux

#### Related terms

* faux ami
* faux bois
* faux pas

#### Translations
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fo/, (in liaison) /fo.z‿/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -o

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

faux (feminine fausse, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fausses)
* false; untrue
* false; not real
    Antonyms: vrai, réel, authentique

##### Derived terms

* aile fausse
* alpiste faux-roseau
* archi-faux
* archifaux
* baldingère faux-roseau
* démêler le vrai du faux
* être faux comme un jeton
* faire fausse queue
* faire fausse route
* faire faux bond
* fausse bannière
* fausse bonne idée
* fausse chanterelle
* fausse cigüe
* fausse ciguë
* fausse clé
* fausse couche
* fausse girolle
* fausse maigre
* fausse manip
* fausse manœuvre
* fausse modestie
* fausse note
* fausse panne
* fausse piste
* fausse poche
* fausse porte
* fausse position
* fausse rose de Jéricho
* faussement
* faux air
* faux anglicisme
* faux bonhomme
* faux bourdon
* faux cèpe
* faux cils
* faux client
* faux col
* faux cul
* faux départ
* faux derche
* faux drapeau
* faux emploi
* faux frais
* faux frère
* faux gallicisme
* faux indigo
* faux indigotier
* faux jeton
* faux jour
* faux jumeaux
* faux maigre
* faux négatif
* faux nez
* faux orme de Sibérie
* faux ourlet
* faux pas
* faux plafond
* faux plancher
* faux plat
* faux positif
* faux procès
* faux réséda
* faux saunage
* faux saunier
* faux séné
* faux témoignage
* faux témoin
* faux-acacia
* faux-ami
* faux-cils
* faux-col
* faux-filet
* faux-fruit
* faux-poids
* faux-poivrier
* faux-poivrier odorant
* faux-saunage
* faux-saunier
* faux-vin
* illusion de fausse montée
* porter à faux
* règle de fausse position
* robinier faux-acacia
* se faire des fausses idées
* sonner faux
* s’inscrire en faux
* vrai-faux

##### Related terms

* fausser
* fausseté

#### See also

* faux-filet

#### Descendants

* → English: faux

#### Adverb

faux
* badly; inaccurately; untruly

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

faux f (plural faux)
* scythe

##### Related terms

* faucille f

#### See also

* serpe f

### Etymology 3

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

#### Verb

faux
* first/second-person singular present indicative of faillir

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* fōx

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfau̯ks/, [ˈfäu̯ks̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfau̯ks/, [ˈfäu̯ks]

### Noun

faux f (genitive faucis); third declension (rare)
* singular of faucēs (“throat, gorge”)
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#### Usage notes

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

#### Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

#### Derived terms

* see: fōx

#### Descendants

(See also fōx.)
* → Italian: fauce

### 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
* 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

## Middle French
### Adjective

faux m (feminine singular fauce, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fauces)
* Alternative form of faulx

## Norman
### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

faux m
* (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)
* (Jersey) scythe