mentiar

mentiar is a Latin form of mentior, meaning “lie, speak falsely; pretend, imitate”. It is the 1st person singular present passive subjunctive.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Amicitia 10: … sic habetote: ego si Scipionis desiderio me moveri negem, quam id recte faciam viderint sapientes, sed certe mentiar. moveor enim tali amico orbatus, qualis, ut arbitror, nemo umquam erit, ut confirmare possum, nemo certe fuit …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.514: Mentiar, obscurum nisi nox cum fecerit orbem,

All forms of mentior (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.