fallacia

See also: fal·làcia

Italian

Noun

fallacia f (plural fallacie)

1. fallacy

Latin

Etymology

From fallāx (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallō (“I deceive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /falˈlaː.ki.a/, [fälˈlʲäːkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /falˈla.t͡ʃi.a/, [fälˈläːt͡ʃiä]

Noun

fallācia f (genitive fallāciae); first declension

1. deception, deceit

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fallācia	fallāciae
genitive	fallāciae	fallāciārum
dative	fallāciae	fallāciīs
accusative	fallāciam	fallāciās
ablative	fallāciā	fallāciīs
vocative	fallācia	fallāciae

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: fal·làcia
• Old French: fallace
  • → Middle English: fallaci
    • English: fallacy
• Italian: fallacia
• Portuguese: falacia
• Spanish: falacia

References

• “fallacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fallacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fallacia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fallacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • by the aid of fraud and lies: dolis et fallaciis (Sall. Cat. 11. 2)
    
  • without any disguise, frankly: sine fuco ac fallaciis (Att. 1. 1. 1)