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Where does “mendacemente” come from?

mendacemente (Italian) comes from Italian mendace, from Latin mendax, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

mendacemente (Italian): untruthfully, mendaciously, deceitfully

Definitions

  1. untruthfully, mendaciously, deceitfully

Ancestry of “mendacemente”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmendacemendacious, lying
2Latinmendaxdeceitful, lying, deceptive, untruthful, false,...
3Latin-āx—
4Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
5Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
6Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
7Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yós →