mendacium

Latin

Etymology

From mendāc- (“lying”, “untruthful”, oblique stem of mendāx) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /menˈdaː.ki.um/, [mɛnˈdaː.ki.ũ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /menˈda.t͡ʃi.um/, [menˈdaː.t͡ʃi.um]

Noun

mendācium n (genitive mendāciī); second declension

  1. A lie, untruth, falsehood, fiction.
  2. An illusion, counterfeit.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mendācium mendācia
Genitive mendāciī mendāciōrum
Dative mendāciō mendāciīs
Accusative mendācium mendācia
Ablative mendāciō mendāciīs
Vocative mendācium mendācia

Derived terms
  • mendāciloquus
  • mendāciunculum

Descendants

References
  • mendacium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mendacium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mendacium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to tell lies: mendacium dicere
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