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Italian
Noun
fallacia f (plural fallacie)
- fallacy
Latin
Etymology
From fallāx (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallō (“I deceive”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fallācia f (genitive fallāciae); first declension
- deception, deceit
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “fallacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fallacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "fallacia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fallacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- by the aid of fraud and lies: dolis et fallaciis (Sall. Cat. 11. 2)
- without any disguise, frankly: sine fuco ac fallaciis (Att. 1. 1. 1)