different between aux vs faux

English

Alternative forms

• aux.

Adjective

aux (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of auxiliary.
   • 2009, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques (page 69)

     Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk.

Esperanto

Conjunction

aux

1. X-system spelling of a?

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: au, aulx, eau, eaux, haut, hauts, ho, o, ô, oh, os (plural only - "os" is not a homophone in the singular)

Contraction

aux

1. Contraction of à + les (to the)

Synonyms

• au
• à la

Further reading

• “aux” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aws/

Contraction

aux

1. Alternative form of als.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French faux. Doublet of false.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: f?, IPA^(key): /f??/
• (US) enPR: f?, IPA^(key): /fo?/
• Homophones: foe, pho
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

faux (not comparable)

1. fake or artificial
   • 2008, James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane, The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

     He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”

   • 2012, Susan Crabtree, Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques (page 392)

     Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all of these variations can be produced in faux wood.

   • 2012, Annie Padden Jubb, David Jubb, LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force (page 196)

     Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.

   Synonyms: cod, mock

   Antonym: genuine

Derived terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo/
• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

From Middle French faulx, from Old French fauz, faus, fals, from Latin falsus.

Adjective

faux (feminine singular fausse, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fausses)

1. false; untrue
2. false; not real

   Antonyms: vrai, réel, authentique

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: faux

Adverb

faux

1. badly; inaccurately; untruly

Etymology 2

From Middle French faulx, from Old French fauz, from Latin falx, falcem, from Proto-Indo-European *d?elk-, *d?elg- (“a cutting tool”).

Noun

faux f (plural faux)

1. scythe

Related terms

• faucille f

See also

• serpe f

Etymology 3

From Old French fail, faus, from Latin fall?, fallis.

Verb

faux

1. first-person singular present indicative of faillir
2. second-person singular present indicative of faillir

See also

• faux-filet

Further reading

• “faux” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly related to Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, “abyss, chasm”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fau?ks/, [fäu?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fau?ks/, [f?u?ks]

Noun

faux f (genitive faucis); third declension (rare)

1. singular of fauc?s

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Usage notes

The word is rarely used in the singular, and only in the ablative (in poems) and nominative (only attested once).

Derived terms

Descendants

• Italian: fauce (borrowing), foce
• Occitan: foz
• Old Portuguese: foz
  • Galician: foz
  • Portuguese: foz
• Old Spanish: foz
  • Spanish: hoz

References

• faux in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• faux in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• faux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1982

Middle French

Adjective

faux m (feminine singular fauce, masculine plural faux, feminine plural fauces)

1. Alternative form of faulx

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French faulz, the plural of fault, ultimately from Latin falsus.

Adjective

faux m

1. (Jersey) false

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin falx, from Proto-Indo-European *dhalk-, *dhalg- (“a cutting tool”).

Noun

faux f (plural faux)

1. (Jersey) scythe