mendaciloquium

Latin

Etymology

From mendāx +‎ loquor +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /men.daː.kiˈlo.kʷi.um/, [mɛn̪d̪äːkɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /men.da.t͡ʃiˈlo.kwi.um/, [men̪d̪ät͡ʃiˈlɔːkwium]

Noun

mendāciloquium n (genitive mendāciloquiī or mendāciloquī); second declension

1. false-speaking, falsehood, mendacity

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mendāciloquium	mendāciloquia
genitive	mendāciloquiī mendāciloquī1	mendāciloquiōrum
dative	mendāciloquiō	mendāciloquiīs
accusative	mendāciloquium	mendāciloquia
ablative	mendāciloquiō	mendāciloquiīs
vocative	mendāciloquium	mendāciloquia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “mendaciloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mendaciloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.