perjury

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.

   We declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Simplified etymology

Perjury came into English in the late Middle Ages from a Latin expression meaning “false oath.” It is historically related to jury through Latin jurare, “to swear,” and denotes the breaking of an oath to speak truthfully.

From Anglo-Norman perjurie, from Latin perjūrāre (“swear falsely”), from per- + jūrāre. Displaced native Old English mānāþ (literally “false oath”).

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