The Esperanto being built with a great part of Romance roots, one meets many False-friend S between French words and Esperanto. Here are some:

• animo : heart (animal: besto )
• adulto : Adultery (Adult: adolto )
• boato : Boat (box: skatolo )
• bolo : boiling (bowl: bovlo )
• brueto : small noise (Wheelbarrow: ĉarumo )
• buo : Buoy (Mud: koto )
• burdo : bumblebee (boob: mispaŝo , misaĵo )
• cervo : stag (Brain: cerbo )
• drapo : Cloth (Flag: flago )
• eliri : to leave (to elect: elekti )
• fali : to fall (to be necessary: necesi )
• fago : beech (faggot: fasko )
• fagoto : bassoon (faggot: fasko to faggot (to make faggots): faskigi ; (to equip with bad taste: fuŝvesti )
• famo : re-elected (Woman - female human being: virino ; wife: edzino )
• filo : wire (thread: fadeno ; wire: drato )
• foresto : absence (Forest: arbaro )
• glaso : Glass (with being drunk): (Ice: glacio for the matter; glaciaĵo for the edible ice)
• imag' : it is the radical “to imagine” and not “image” (which says bildo )
• kapo : head (wraps: kabo )
• kabo : wraps (Chien: hundo )
• will klera : cultivated (clearly: hela )
• kokino : hen (rascal, swindler, rascal, Swindler: fripono )
• korbo : basket, basket (corbel: korvo )
• krampo : hook (Cramp: kramfo )
• lavo : washing (Lava volcanic: lafo )
• ligno : Wood (line: linio )
• marto : March (month of the year) (hammer: martelo )
• muso : Mouse (foam: club-footed. : musko ; mar. : ŝipoknabo ; foam: ŝaŭmo )
• napo : Turnip (tablecloth: tablotuko )
• naked : then (naked: nuda )
• father : by the intermediary (of qqch, qqn; father: patro )
• planko : Floor (cushy job: kaŝejo ; Board: breto )
• prudenta : Wise (careful: singard (EM) has )
• will pura : clean (pure: simpla )
• raciismo : rationalism (racism: rasismo )
• sabato : Saturday (Sabbath: ŝabato )
• savi : to save (to know: scii )
• servo : service (Brain: cerbo )
• signi : to indicate (to sign: subskribi )
• if : oneself ( if - condition: ; if - assertion: jes ja )
• somero : summer (Summary (list): temaro )
• vero : Truth (Glass (matter): vitro ; Glass (container): glaso )
• voli : to want ( to steal - to plane: flugi ; to conceal ŝteli )
• zum' : radical of “bourdonner”, “fredonner” (Zoom: fokusvaria objektivo )

See too

Internal bonds

• False-friends in German
• False-friends in English
• False-friends in Italian