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English
Noun
fallacies
- plural of fallacy
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
fallāciēs f (genitive fallāciēī); fifth declension
- Alternative form of fallācia
c. 125 CE – 180 CE,
Apuleius,
Metamorphoses 5.27.17:
- Nec setius et ipsa fallacie germanitatis inducta et in sororis sceleratas nuptias aemula festinauit ad scopulum inque simile mortis exitium cecidit.
Declension
Fifth-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “fallacies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fallacies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.