mendacium

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

mendācĭum: ii, n. mendax,
I a lie, untruth, falsehood.
I Lit. (class.): dicere alicui mendacium de re aliquā, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 33: mendacio fallere, Cic. Mur. 30, 62: vatum, Ov. F. 6, 253: famae, id. ib. 4, 311: immensa spirant mendacia, Juv. 7, 111: Titiae meae, cum quā sine mendacio vixi, i. e. honestly, without hypocrisy, Dig. 34, 2, 36: prophetāsti mendacium, Vulg. Jer. 20, 6; cf. id. ib. 27, 10: credere mendacio, to believe a lie, id. 2 Thess. 2, 11.—
   B Esp., a fable, fiction (opp. historic truth): poëtarum, Curt. 3, 1, 4.—
II Transf., of things, a counterfeit (post-Aug.): neque est imitabilior alia mendacio vitri, Plin. 37, 8, 33, § 112; 35, 6, 29, § 48.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

mendācĭum,¹⁰ ĭī, n. (mendax),
1 mensonge, menterie, fausseté [en paroles] : Cic. Mur. 62 ; Fam. 3, 10, 7 ; Off. 3, 61 || [en part.] illusion, erreur des sens] : Cic. Ac. 2, 80
2 fable, fiction : Curt. 3, 1, 4
3 contrefaçon, imitation, reproduction : Plin. 37, 112 ; 35, 48.

Latin > German (Georges)

mendācium, iī, n. (mendax), I) etwas Erdichtetes als Produkt des mendax, die Unwahrheit, die Lüge, die Vorspiegelung (Ggstz. verum), a) übh.: mend. honestum, Cic.: m. impudens, Cic.: aptum tempori mendacium, Tac.: necessitatis mend., die Notlüge, Augustin.: mendacium dicere, eine Lüge sagen, Nep. u. Quint., alci de re, Plaut.: mendacium struere, Liv.: cave mendacium (sc. dicas), Plaut.: u. so cave mihi mendaci quicquam (sc. dicas), Plaut.: mera mendacia (lauter L.) narrare, Sen.: hoc mendacio defungi, Cael. in Cic. ep.: de alqo libero mendacio abuti, frischweg lügen, Liv.: in aliquo impudenti mendacio delitescere, sich stecken hinter usw., Cic.: mendacium obtinere, Cic.: mendacium alcis refellere et redarguere, Cic.: onerare alqm mendaciis, jmdm. die Hucke voll lügen, Cic.: sine mendacio vivere, aufrichtig, ohne Heuchelei, ICt. – b) insbes. = die poet. Erdichtung, Fiktion, die Fabel (im Ggstz. zum geschichtlich Beglaubigten), poëtarum, Curt. 3, 1, 4. – II) (wie ψεῦδος) übtr., v. Lebl., Täuschung, a) im allg.: famae, Ov.: von der Nachahmung der Farben, Plin.: Phoebi mendacia, die nachgeahmte Rolle des Phöbus, Poëta b. Suet. – b) insbes., v. der Sinnestäuschung, die Täuschung, der Trug, opinionis esse mendacium, non oculorum, Cic.: oculorum reliquorumque sensuum mendacia, Cic.: mendacio constare, Sen.: non est propria in ista nube substantia, nec corpus est, sed mendacium, sine re similitudo, Sen.

Latin > English

mendacium mendaci(i) N N :: lie, lying, falsehood, untruth; counterfeit, fraud

Translations

Afrikaans: leuen; Albanian: gënjeshtër; Arabic: كَذْبَة‎; Moroccan: كدبة‎; Armenian: սուտ; Aromanian: minciunã; Assamese: মিছা কথা, ফাঁকি, মিছা; Asturian: mentira; Azerbaijani: yalan; Baluchi: دروگ‎; Bashkir: ялған; Basque: gezur; Belarusian: хлусня, няпраўда, брахня; Bengali: মিথ্যা; Bulgarian: лъжа; Burmese: မုသား, အလှိုင်း; Catalan: mentida; Cebuano: bakak; Chechen: аьшпаш, пуьчаш; Chichewa: bodza; Chinese Mandarin: 謊言, 谎言, 假話, 假话; Crimean Tatar: yalan; Czech: lež; Dalmatian: bosca; Danish: løgn; Dongxiang: ghudan; Dutch: leugen; East Yugur: ghudal; Esperanto: mensogo, malvero; Estonian: vale, väär; Evenki: улэк; Ewe: alakpadada, aʋatsokaka; Faroese: lygn; Finnish: vale, valhe, potaska, pöty, lööperi, palturi, puppu, luikuri, fuula; French: mensonge; Friulian: bausìe, bùzare, gàbule, bausie; Gagauz: yalan; Galician: mintira, loia, bouba, caroca, grilla, alburgada, broza, drola, menzoña, escocha, mentira; Georgian: სიცრუე; German: Lüge; Greek: ψέμα; Ancient Greek: ψεῦδος; Greenlandic: sallu; Hawaiian: punipuni, wahaheʻe; Hebrew: שקר‎, כזב‎; Hindi: झूठ, मिथ्या, अबद्ध, असत्य; Hungarian: hazugság; Icelandic: lygi; Ido: mentio; Ilocano: ulbod; Indonesian: bohong, kebohongan; Interlingua: mendacio, mentita; Irish: bréag; Old Irish: bréc; Italian: bugia, menzogna, frottola, baggianata, fola, balla, fandonia; Japanese: 嘘, 虚言; Javanese: goroh; Kalmyk: худл; Karachay-Balkar: ётюрюк, жалгъан, джалгъан; Kazakh: жалған, өтірік; Khakas: чой, тайма; Khmer: កុហក; Kikuyu: iheeni Korean: 거짓말; Kumyk: ялгъан; Kurdish Central Kurdish: درۆ‎; Northern Kurdish: virr; Kyrgyz: жалган, калп, төгүн; Lao: ມຸສາ; Latin: mendacium; Latvian: meli; Lithuanian: melas; Low German German Low German: Löög; Luxembourgish: Ligen; Macedonian: лага; Malay: penipuan; Maori: kōpeka; Marathi: खोट; Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭣𐭡𐭠‎; Mongolian: худал; Navajo: yoochʼííd; Ngazidja Comorian: ndrabo; Northern Sami: gielis; Norwegian Bokmål: løgn; Nynorsk: løgn, lygn; Occitan: messorga, messonja, mensònja, mensònega, mentida, mentit; Old Occitan: menzonga; Old Persian: 𐎭𐎼𐎢𐎥; Papiamentu: mentira; Pashto: درواغ‎, دروغ‎; Persian: دروغ‎; Plautdietsch: Lieej; Polish: kłamstwo; Portuguese: mentira; Quechua: llulla; Romanian: minciună; Romansch: manzegna, manzigna, manzögna; Russian: ложь, неправда, враньё, обман, враки, брехня; Sanskrit: मिथ्या, असत्य; Sardinian: fàba, fàbula, fàula, catòcia; Scottish Gaelic: breug; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: лаж; Roman: laž, neistina; Shor: тайба, чой; Sicilian: minzonga, buggìa, bugìa, fandonia, fanfonia, nfanfonia; Slovak: klamstvo, lož; Slovene: laž; Sorbian Lower Sorbian: łdganje, łdža; Sotho: leshano; Southern Altai: тӧгӱн; Spanish: mentira; Swabian: Luag, Liag; Swedish: lögn; Sylheti: ꠝꠤꠍꠣ, ꠝꠤꠍꠣ ꠝꠣꠔ; Tagalog: kasinungalingan; Tajik: дурӯғ; Tamil: பொய், தவரு; Tatar: ялган, ялганлык, алдак; Telugu: అబద్ధం; Thai: คำโกหก, โกหก, กุ; Tocharian B: waike; Turkish: yalan, martaval, palavra; Turkmen: ýalan; Tuvan: меге; Ukrainian: брехня, неправда; Urdu: جھوٹ‎, متھیا‎; Uyghur: يالغان‎, يالغانچىلىق‎; Uzbek: yolgʻon; Vietnamese: lời nói dối; Volapük: lug, lug e cüt; Walloon: minte, boude, mintreye; Warray: kaga'; Welsh: celwydd, anwiredd; Yakut: сымыйа; Yiddish: ליגן‎; Zhuang: byangz, vahbyangz