mendacity

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɛnˈdæsəti/
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• General-American: /mɛnˈdæsəti/
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• General-American: [-ɾi]
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• CMU ARPABET: M EH0 N D AE1 S IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Latin mendacitas, from Latin mendāx (“deceitful, deceptive, lying”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being). Mendāx is derived from mentior (“to deceive, lie”) (from mēns, mentis (“mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”)) + -āx (suffix forming adjectives expressing a tendency or inclination), or from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“to fault”). By surface analysis, Latin mendāc- + -ity.

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: лъжливост (lǎžlivost) — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Danish: uhæderlighed — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Danish: løgnagtighed — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Dutch: leugenachtigheid — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Dutch: oneerlijkheid — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Finnish: valheellisuus — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Finnish: epärehellisyys — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• German: Verlogenheit — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Italian: mendacità — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Norwegian: uærlighet — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Portuguese: mendacidade — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Portuguese: falsidade — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Russian: лжи́вость (lžívostʹ) — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Spanish: mendacidad — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Turkish: yalancılık — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Ottoman Turkish: یالانجیلق (yalancılık) — fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
• Bulgarian: лъжа (lǎža) — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Dutch: leugen — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Dutch: bedrog — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Finnish: valhe — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Finnish: petos — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Finnish: vilppi — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• German: Unwahrheit — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Italian: bugia — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Italian: menzogna — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Italian: falsità — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Italian: mendacità — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Norwegian: falskhet — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Portuguese: mendacidade — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Portuguese: falsidade — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Romanian: falsitate — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Russian: ложь (ložʹ) — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Russian: фальшь (falʹšʹ) — a deceit, falsehood, or lie
• Spanish: mentira — a deceit, falsehood, or lie