ψυδρός

• ψυδνός (psudnós)

Related to ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, untrue”) and ψύθος (psúthos, “lie, untruth”). The zero grade found in this word agrees with Armenian սուտ (sut, “false; lie”). Clackson is inclined to believe the proposal that the Greek word is related to Proto-Indo-European *bʰes- (“wind”), like ψύχω (psúkhō, “to breathe, blow”); semantic parallels would be ψίθυρος (psíthuros, “whispering, slanderous”) and ψύδραξ (psúdrax, “pustule, blister”). However, according to Beekes, Pre-Greek origin is a better explanation.

ψῠδρός • (psudrós) m (feminine ψῠδρᾱ́, neuter ψῠδρόν); first/second declension

1. false, lying, untrue

   Synonym: ψευδής (pseudḗs)

• ψῠδρεύς (psudreús)

• “ψυδρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ψυδρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN