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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psêu̯.dos/ → /ˈpseβ.ðos/ → /ˈpsev.ðos/
Noun
ψεῦδος • (pseûdos) n (genitive ψεύδους); third declension
- a falsehood, a lie, a figment
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ψεῦδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψεῦδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ψεῦδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ψεῦδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ψεῦδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ψεῦδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.