The story
- Latin · derived fromfallācia“deception, deceit”
- Old French · derived fromfallace
- Middle English · inherited fromfallaci
- English todayfallacy
From Middle English fallaci, fallace, fallas, from Old French fallace (whence -acy), from Latin fallācia (“deception, deceit”), from fallāx (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallere (“to deceive”).
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.