spurious
English
/ˈspjʊə.ɹi.əs/, /ˈspjʊ.ɹi.əs/
adj
Definitions
- False, not authentic, not genuine.
- Extraneous; stray; not relevant or wanted.
- (archaic) bastardly, illegitimate
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin spurius.
Origin
Latin
spurius
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antispurion English
- nonspurious English
- spurion English
- spurionic English
- spuriosity English
- spuriously English
- spuriousness English
- unspurious English
- spurius Latin
- spurio Italian
- espurio Spanish, Castilian
- *sper- Proto-Indo-European
- espúrio Portuguese
- șpur Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan