Words that come from Latin falsus

232 words across 47 languages descend from Latin falsus — including false, fault, falsehood, faulty, falsely, faultless, faux, falsification.

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English (66)

Dutch (19)

French (16)

Latin (15)

Italian (9)

German (9)

Old French (9)

Spanish (9)

Catalan (7)

Irish (7)

Polish (5)

Luxembourgish (4)

Middle French (4)

Middle English (4)

Portuguese (4)

Russian (3)

Norman (3)

Old Portuguese (3)

Middle High German (3)

Late Latin (3)

Middle Dutch (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Occitan (2)

Danish (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Estonian (1)

Swedish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Albanian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Japanese (1)

Galician (1)

Friulian (1)

Icelandic (1)

Old English (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Romanian (1)

Malay (1)

Old Norse (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Cebuano (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Old High German (1)