mendax

Significado (Inglês)

Adj

deceitful, lying, deceptive, untruthful, false, mendacious, feigned, not real.

Noun

liar

Conceitos

mentiroso

errado

falso

mentirosa

fingido

Sinônimos

falsus

falsidicus

Traduções

bugiardo

liar

embustero

menteur

mentitore

mentiroso

Lügner

yalancı

ψεύτης

leugenaar

menzognero

ψεύτρα

fibber

كذاب

Pronunciado como (IPA)

[ˈmɛn.daːks]

Etimologia (Inglês)

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“to fault”), whence also mendum and menda, plus -āx. Original meaning was "faulty" and was shifted towards "deceitful" under the influence of mentior (“I lie”).