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.

Case	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
• English: falsity
• Extremaduran: falsedá
• French: fausseté
• Galician: falsidade
• Italian: falsità
• Leonese: falsedá
• Maltese: falsità
• Portuguese: falsidade
• Romanian: falsitate
• 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.