falsification

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English false

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *θakos

Proto-Italic *-fakos

Latin -ficus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -ficō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ficātiō

Old French -ificationbor.

Middle English -ificacioun

English -ification

English falsification

From false + -ification.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɔːl.sɪf.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

falsification (countable and uncountable, plural falsifications)

1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 19:

     The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 523, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish):

     Lenin's retroactive view of history was of course nothing in comparison to the systematic falsification of Stalin's day, when it had to be shown at all costs that the current assessment of individuals and political movements was equally valid for all past years.

2. A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
3. The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

Derived terms

• falsificationism
• falsificationist

Related terms

• falsify

Translations

the act of making false

• Arabic: تَزْيِيف m (tazyīf)
• Belarusian: фальсіфіка́цыя f (falʹsifikácyja)
• Bulgarian: фалшифика́ция (bg) f (falšifikácija)
• Catalan: falsificació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偽造 / 伪造 (zh) (wěizào)

• Czech: falšování n
• Dutch: vervalsen (nl)
• Esperanto: falsado
• Estonian: võltsing
• Finnish: väärentäminen (fi), väärennys
• French: falsification (fr) f
• Georgian: ფალსიფიკაცია (palsipiḳacia), გაყალბება (gaq̇albeba)
• German: Fälschung (de) f, Falsifikation (de) f
• Ido: falsigo (io)
• Japanese: 偽造 (ja) (gizō), 改竄 (ja) (kaizan)
• Korean: 위조(僞造) (ko) (wijo)
• Māori: tahuperatanga, whakatapehatanga, aweketanga
• Polish: fałszowanie (pl) n, fałszerstwo (pl) n, falsyfikacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: falsificação (pt) f
• Russian: фальсифика́ция (ru) f (falʹsifikácija)
• Slovak: falšovanie n
• Spanish: falsificación (es) f
• Turkish: sahtecilik (tr)
• Ukrainian: фальсифіка́ція (uk) f (falʹsyfikácija)

intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation

• Azerbaijani: saxtakarlıq
• Bulgarian: изопаче́ние (bg) n (izopačénie)
• Finnish: vääristely (fi)
• Māori: aweketanga
• Portuguese: falsidade (pt) f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: یالان (yalan)

showing an item of charge in account to be wrong

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: denaturare (ro) (1, 2), falsificare (ro) (1, 2)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

falsification f (plural falsifications)

1. falsification

Further reading

• “falsification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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