Where does “mendaciousness” come from?
mendaciousness (English) comes from English mendacious, from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium, from Latin mendax, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
mendaciousness (English): Mendacity
Definitions
- Mendacity
Ancestry of “mendaciousness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mendacious | Lying, untruthful or dishonest; False or untrue |
| 2 | Middle French | mendacieux | false, especially in a way intending to deceive |
| 3 | Latin | mendācium | A lie, untruth, falsehood, fiction |
| 4 | Latin | mendax | deceitful, lying, deceptive, untruthful, false,... |
| 5 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 6 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |