mendacidad
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin mendācitātem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mendaθiˈdad/ [mẽn̪.d̪a.θiˈð̞að̞] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /mendasiˈdad/ [mẽn̪.d̪a.siˈð̞að̞] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ad
- Syllabification: men‧da‧ci‧dad
Noun
mendacidad f (plural mendacidades)
- mendacity, untruthfulness
- 2015 September 19, “Fantasías y ficciones en el debate republicano”, in El País[1]:
- La mendacidad de Christie, no obstante, palidece en comparación con la de Carly Fiorina, aclamada por todos como “ganadora” del debate.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms
Further reading
- “mendacidad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024