falsidicus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /falˈsi.di.kus/, [fäɫ̪ˈs̠ɪd̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /falˈsi.di.kus/, [fälˈsiːd̪ikus]

Adjective

falsidicus (feminine falsidica, neuter falsidicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. 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.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	falsidicus	falsidica	falsidicum		falsidicī	falsidicae	falsidica
Genitive	falsidicī	falsidicae	falsidicī		falsidicōrum	falsidicārum	falsidicōrum
Dative	falsidicō		falsidicō		falsidicīs
Accusative	falsidicum	falsidicam	falsidicum		falsidicōs	falsidicās	falsidica
Ablative	falsidicō	falsidicā	falsidicō		falsidicīs
Vocative	falsidice	falsidica	falsidicum		falsidicī	falsidicae	falsidica

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