The corpus record — Latin

vanidicus

vanidicus · adj

vain - speaking; false - speaking; subst

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

vānĭdĭcus — Lewis & Short

vānĭdĭcus, a, um, adj.vanus-dico,

I vain - speaking; false - speaking; subst., a liar (ante- and post-class. and rare): cum probis potius quam cum improbis vivere vanidicis, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 37; Amm. 16, 7, 2.

In the wild

vanidicus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.7.2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.