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mendax
mendax
Latin
Adjective
mendāx m, f, n (genitive mendācis); third declension
- deceitful, lying, deceptive, untruthful, false, mendacious, feigned, not real.
Inflection
Note that mendāce is an alternative form for the ablative singular mendācī Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | mendāx | mendācēs | mendācia | ||
| genitive | mendācis | mendācium | |||
| dative | mendācī | mendācibus | |||
| accusative | mendācem | mendāx | mendācēs | mendācia | |
| ablative | mendācī | mendācibus | |||
| vocative | mendāx | mendācēs | mendācia | ||
- comparative: mendācior, superlative: mendācissimus
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- mendācitās
- mendāciter
- mendācium
Related terms
- mendāciloquium
- mendāciloquus
- mendāciunculum
Descendants
- English: mendacious
- Italian: mendace
- Old French: menteor
- Portuguese: mendace, mendaz
- Spanish: mendaz
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mendax”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag