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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false”) + ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pseβˈða.ðel.ɸos/ → /psevˈða.ðel.fos/
Noun
ψευδᾰ́δελφος • (pseudádelphos) m (genitive ψευδᾰδέλφου); second declension
- (Christianity) false brother, pretended Christian
Usage notes
- Primarily attested in the plural in the Pauline epistles.
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ψευδάδελφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψευδάδελφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ψευδάδελφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “ψευδάδελφος”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “ψευδάδελφος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011