Faux
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faux¹
- /fəʊ/ UK
- /foʊ/ US
- /fɔ/ South Asia
Sounds like fo', foe, pho, (non-rhotic) for, (non-rhotic) fore, (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger) four, (South Asia) faugh, (South Asia) faw · Rhymes with -əʊ, -ɔː
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el-der.
Proto-Italic *falsō?
Latin fallō
Latin falsus
Old French fals
Middle French faulx
French fauxubor.
English faux
Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.
adjective
- Fake or artificial. He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”
faux²
noun fauces
- singular of fauces […] the faux of the corolla […]
Faux³
Where it comes from
Either a variant of Faulks or borrowed from French Faux.
proper noun Fauxes
- A surname.
