mendacium

== Latin == === Etymology === From mendāc- (“lying”, “untruthful”, oblique stem of mendāx) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛnˈdaː.ki.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [menˈdaː.t͡ʃi.um] === Noun === mendācium n (genitive mendāciī or mendācī); second declension A lie, untruth, falsehood, fiction. Synonym: commentum An illusion, counterfeit. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Quotations ==== "Ego numquam pronuntiare mendacium sed ego sum homo indomitus." Braveheart. ==== 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 “mendacium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.