perfide

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin perfidus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛʁ.fid/
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  • Rhymes: -id

Adjective

perfide (plural perfides)

  1. (relational) perfidious

Descendants

  • German: perfide

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French perfide, from Latin perfidus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

perfide (strong nominative masculine singular perfider, comparative perfider, superlative am perfidesten)

  1. perfidious
    Synonyms: arglistig, bösartig, böse, boshaft, diabolisch, hinterhältig, hinterlistig, niederträchtig, ruchlos, schändlich, schmählich, verschlagen

Declension

Further reading

  • perfide” in Duden online
  • perfide” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Pronunciation

Adjective

perfide

  1. feminine plural of perfido

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

perfide

  1. vocative masculine singular of perfidus

References

  • perfide”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • perfide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.