See fallax on Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fallācibus",
"links": [
[
"fallācibus",
"fallacibus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fallāx",
"links": [
[
"fallāx",
"fallax#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "fallācēs",
"links": [
[
"fallācēs",
"fallaces#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "fallācia",
"links": [
[
"fallācia",
"fallacia#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fallāx",
"adv": "fallāciter",
"comp": "fallācior",
"sup": "fallācissimus"
},
"expansion": "fallāx (genitive fallācis, comparative fallācior, superlative fallācissimus, adverb fallāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective",
"name": "la-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fallāx"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.",
"ref": "c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.26.28",
"roman": "1752 translation by Douay-Rheims, Challoner rev.",
"text": "Lingua fallāx nōn amat vēritātem: et ōs lūbricum operātur ruīnās. [adjective]",
"translation": "A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"deceptive, deceitful"
],
"links": [
[
"deceptive",
"deceptive"
],
[
"deceitful",
"deceitful"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"fallacious, spurious"
],
"links": [
[
"fallacious",
"fallacious"
],
[
"spurious",
"spurious"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈfal.laːks]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfal.laks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "fallax"
}
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