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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
falsidicus (feminine falsidica, neuter falsidicum); first/second-declension adjective
- lying (adjective), speaking falsely
c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE,
Plautus,
Captivi 3.5.13-17:
- Quia me meamque rem, quod in te uno fuit,
tuis scelestis falsidicis fallaciis
deartuasti dilaceravisti atque opes
confecisti omnes, res ac rationes meas:
ita mi exemisti Philocratem fallaciis.- Translation by Henry Thomas Riley
- Because me and my fortunes, so far as in you singly lay, by your rascally and knavish stratagems you have rent in pieces, and have distracted my affairs and spoiled all my resources and my plans, in that you've thus robbed me of Philocrates by your devices.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “falsidicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- falsidicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- falsidicus in Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (Hannover 1918; reprinted Darmstadt 1998), vol. 1, col. 2678-2679.
- Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources