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mendax

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Latin

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (to fault), whence also mendum and menda, plus -āx. Original meaning was "faulty" and was shifted towards "deceitful" under the influence of mentior (I lie).

Pronunciation

Adjective

mendāx (genitive mendācis, comparative mendācior, superlative mendācissimus, adverb mendāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. deceitful, lying, deceptive, untruthful, false, mendacious, feigned, not real.

Declension

Note that mendāce is an alternative form for the ablative singular mendācī

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: mendacious
  • Italian: mendace
  • Portuguese: mendace, mendaz
  • Spanish: mendaz

Noun

mendāx m (genitive mendācis); third declension

  1. liar

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

  • mendax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mendax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mendax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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