fallo.
to deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint
Meaning & usage
to deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint
to mistake, be mistaken, deceive oneself
to escape the notice of; be unknown, unseen, unaware, hidden
to appease, beguile
to swear falsely, perjure
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el-der. Proto-Italic *falsō? Latin fallo Uncertain. According to De Vaan, from Proto-Italic *falsō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”) (with semantic shift "stumble" > "deceive"), and cognate with Sanskrit स्खल् (skhal, “to stumble, fail”), Persian سکرفیدن (sekarfidan, “to stumble”), Ancient Greek σφάλλω (sphállō, “to bring down”), σφάλλομαι (sphállomai, “to fall”), Old Armenian սխալեմ (sxalem, “to stumble, fail”). Formerly considered to be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwel- (“to lie, deceive”), but this does not account for the /a/.
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