different between cavillation vs fallax

English

Etymology

cavil +? -ation

Noun

cavillation (plural cavillations)

1. The act of cavilling.

Anagrams

• vacillation

English

Etymology

From Latin fallax (“deceptive”). See fallacy.

Noun

fallax (plural fallaxes)

1. (obsolete) cavillation; petty criticism

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Latin

Etymology

From fall? (“I deceive”) +? -?x (“inclined to”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fal.la?ks/, [?fäl??ä?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fal.laks/, [?f?l??ks]

Adjective

fall?x (genitive fall?cis, comparative fall?cior, superlative fall?cissimus, adverb fall?citer); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. deceptive, deceitful
2. fallacious, spurious

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Descendants

• Catalan: fal·laç
• Galician: falaz
• Italian: fallace
• Portuguese: falaz
• Spanish: falaz

References

• fallax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fallax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fallax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.