From Old Galician-Portuguese falescer (“to fail, err; diminish”), derived from falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallīre, from Latin fallere. Compare Portuguese falecer, Spanish fallecer.

• IPA^(key): [faleˈθeɾ], (western) [faleˈseɾ]

falecer (first-person singular present falezo, first-person singular preterite falecín, past participle falecido)
falecer (first-person singular present faleço, first-person singular preterite falecim or faleci, past participle falecido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to die

   Synonyms: finar, morrer

2. (archaic) to be lacking
   • 1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32:

     Estas duas follas que de aqui faleçen tirey eu Rui Matines, notario, deste libro por quanto os escrivãaos de miña notaria lançaron ende algũas escripturas que non devian ser aqui asentadas

     These two leaves that are lacking here were removed from this book by me Roi Martínez, notary, because the scribes of my office put there some scriptures which shouldn't be recorded here

   Synonyms: fallar, marrar

• desfalecer
• falecemento

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “falecer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fales”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “falecer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “falecer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• fallecer (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese falescer, derived from falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallīre, from Latin fallere.^[1][2] Cognate with Galician falecer, Spanish fallecer.

• Hyphenation: fa‧le‧cer

falecer (first-person singular present faleço, first-person singular preterite faleci, past participle falecido)

1. to die

   Synonym: morrer

• desfalecer

• falhar