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Latin
Etymology
From mordeō (“I bite”) + -āx (“inclined to”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mordāx (genitive mordācis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- biting; snappish; tart
- cutting
- caustic
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “mordax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mordax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mordax 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)
- mordax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.