mendaciosus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mendācium (“a lie”) + -ōsus (“full of”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /men.daː.kiˈoː.sus/, [mɛn̪d̪äːkiˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /men.da.t͡ʃiˈo.sus/, [men̪d̪ät͡ʃiˈɔːs̬us]
Adjective[edit]
mendāciōsus (feminine mendāciōsa, neuter mendāciōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Medieval Latin) deceitful, lying, untruthful
- Synonym: mendāx
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mendāciōsus | mendāciōsa | mendāciōsum | mendāciōsī | mendāciōsae | mendāciōsa | |
| Genitive | mendāciōsī | mendāciōsae | mendāciōsī | mendāciōsōrum | mendāciōsārum | mendāciōsōrum | |
| Dative | mendāciōsō | mendāciōsō | mendāciōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | mendāciōsum | mendāciōsam | mendāciōsum | mendāciōsōs | mendāciōsās | mendāciōsa | |
| Ablative | mendāciōsō | mendāciōsā | mendāciōsō | mendāciōsīs | |||
| Vocative | mendāciōse | mendāciōsa | mendāciōsum | mendāciōsī | mendāciōsae | mendāciōsa | |
Descendants[edit]
- → English: mendacious
- → Middle French: mendacieux
References[edit]
- mendaciosus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Peter Stotz (1996) Handbuch zur lateinischen Sprache des Mittelalters, Munich: C.H.Beck, page 345. The footnote reveals that the word was used in the Chronicon Salernitanum