From Wiktionary:
1. The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
2. A deceit, falsehood, or lie.
From Late Latin mendacitas, from Latin mendāx (“deceitful, deceptive, lying”). Mendāx is derived from mentior (“to deceive, lie”) (from mēns, mentis (“mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”)), or from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“to fault”).
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