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falsa

falsa is a Latin form of fallo, meaning “deceive; escape the notice of”. It is the perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle nominative singular feminine.

It can also be a form of falsus, “false, deceptive”.

Found 416 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.31: … d si iam, inquit, haec explorata habeamus, quae de exercitus alienatione dicuntur, quae quidem ego aut omnino falsa aut certe minora opinione esse confido, quanto haec dissimulari et occultari, quam per nos confirmari praeste …

Ovid, Amores 2.4.2: Falsaque pro vitiis arma movere meis.

All forms of fallo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.