Latin

Noun

mendācium n ‎(genitive mendāciī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• mendāciloquus
• mendāciunculum

Related terms

• mendāciloquium
• mendācitās
• mendāciter
• mendāx

Descendants

• Italian: mendacio

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mendacium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to tell lies: mendacium dicere