ψευδής

• (rare, irregular) ψαυδής (psaudḗs)

From the root of ψεύδω (pseúdō, “to lie”) +‎ -ής (-ḗs, adjective suffix).

ψευδής • (pseudḗs) m or f (neuter ψευδές); third declension

1. lying, false, untrue

   Synonym: ψυδρός (psudrós)

2. deceived, beguiled

In many Classical Greek cities, being good at lying and deception was considered a virtue and a heroic quality; in the Odyssey for example.

• (antonym(s) of “lying”): ἀληθής (alēthḗs, “true”)

• Greek: ψευδής (psevdís)

• “ψευδής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ψευδής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ψευδής”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ψευδής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ψευδής in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ψευδής”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5281 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • baseless idem, page 64.
  • delusive idem, page 209.
  • erroneous idem, page 281.
  • fallacious idem, page 304.
  • false idem, page 304.
  • fictitious idem, page 317.
  • garbled idem, page 354.
  • heterodox idem, page 398.
  • hypocritical idem, page 412.
  • imaginary idem, page 416.
  • inaccurate idem, page 427.
  • incorrect idem, page 430.
  • lie idem, page 489.
  • lying idem, page 506.
  • mendacious idem, page 524.
  • misleading idem, page 534.
  • mistaken idem, page 535.
  • mythical idem, page 549.
  • unfounded idem, page 919.
  • ungrounded idem, page 920.
  • unreal idem, page 929.
  • untrue idem, page 935.
  • untruthful idem, page 935.
  • wrong idem, page 994.

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs).

• IPA^(key): /pseˈvðis/
• Hyphenation: ψευ‧δής
• Homophone: ψευδείς (psevdeís)

ψευδής • (psevdís) m (feminine ψευδής, neuter ψευδές)

1. false; sham; insincere; wearing masks

   Antonyms: αληθής (alithís, “true”), αψευδής (apsevdís, “not lying”)

• αψευδής (apsevdís, “not lying, truthful”)
• ψευδώς (psevdós, adverb)

• and see: ψεύδομαι (psévdomai, “I lie”) for stem ψευδ- & ψέμα (pséma)