Words that come from Latin “faux”

71 words across 18 languages descend from Latin faux — including suffocating, faucet, suffocate, faucial, suffocatingly, suffocative, faucal, affogato.

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Latin (20)

English (14)

Italian (8)

Portuguese (8)

Vulgar Latin (3)

Esperanto (2)

Middle English (2)

Spanish (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Late Latin (2)

Galician (1)

Lombard (1)

Venetian (1)

French (1)

Catalan (1)

Old French (1)

Romanian (1)

Norman (1)