fallax
English
Noun
fallax (plural fallaxes)
- (obsolete) cavillation; petty criticism
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cranmer to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fallax in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfal.laːks/
Inflection
Third declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | fallāx | fallāx | fallācēs | fallācia | |
Genitive | fallācis | fallācis | fallācium | fallācium | |
Dative | fallācī | fallācī | fallācibus | fallācibus | |
Accusative | fallācem | fallāx | fallācēs | fallācia | |
Ablative | fallācī | fallācī | fallācibus | fallācibus | |
Vocative | fallāx | fallāx | fallācēs | fallācia |
References
- fallax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fallax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fallax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a fallacious argument; sophism: conclusiuncula fallax or captio
- a fallacious argument; sophism: conclusiuncula fallax or captio
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