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mentitus

mentitus is a Latin form of mentior, meaning “lie, speak falsely; pretend, imitate”. It is the perfect deponent participle nominative singular masculine or perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.251: praecipitem misit, lapsum mentitus. At illum

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 5.42.5: … adfirmares esse in tua potestate, dixisse me volaticum esse ac levem et te non pedem eius tenere, sed pennam. Mentitus sum? Pluma tenebatur, quam remisit et fugit. Scis, quos postea tibi exhibuerit ludos, quam multa in caput suu …

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.