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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fallax (“deceptive”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fallax (plural fallaxes)
- (obsolete) cavillation; petty criticism
a. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, An Answer to a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation devised by Stephen Gadiner:First, after the sum of my fourth book, collected as pleaseth you, at the first dash you begin with an untrue report, joined to a subtle deceit or fallax, saying that my chief purpose that evil men receive not the body and blood of Christ in the sacrament.
References
“fallax”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Etymology
From fallō (“I deceive”) + -āx (“inclined to”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fallāx (genitive fallācis, comparative fallācior, superlative fallācissimus, adverb fallāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- deceptive, deceitful
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.26.28:
- Lingua fallāx nōn amat vēritātem: et ōs lūbricum operātur ruīnās.
- 1752 translation by Douay-Rheims, Challoner rev.
- A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.
- fallacious, spurious
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “fallax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fallax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fallax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a fallacious argument; sophism: conclusiuncula fallax or captio