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καταψεύδομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: katapseudomai

Principal Part: καταψεύδομαι καταψεύσομαι κατεψεύσθην κατέψευσμαι

Structure: κατα (Prefix) + ψεύδ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to tell lies against, speak falsely of
  2. to allege falsely against
  3. to say falsely, pretend, to feign, invent
  4. to be falsely reported, to be spurious

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ διὰ τὸ ἀκίνδυνον αὐτοῖς εἶναι τὸν ἀγῶνα ῥᾳδίως ὅ τι ἂν βούλωνται λέγουσι καὶ καταψεύδονται, οἱ δὲ κρινόμενοι διὰ τὸν φόβον πολλὰ καὶ τῶν πεπραγμένων αὐτοῖς εἰπεῖν ἐπιλανθάνονται. (Hyperides, Speeches, 15:2)
  • οἱ δ ἄνθρωποι διὰ τὸ αὑτῶν δέος τοῦ θανάτου καὶ τῶν κύκνων καταψεύδονται, καί φασιν αὐτοὺς θρηνοῦντας τὸν θάνατον ὑπὸ λύπης ἐξᾴδειν, καὶ οὐ λογίζονται ὅτι οὐδὲν ὄρνεον ᾄδει ὅταν πεινῇ ἢ ῥιγῷ ἤ τινα ἄλλην λύπην λυπῆται, οὐδὲ αὐτὴ ἥ τε ἀηδὼν καὶ χελιδὼν καὶ ὁ ἔποψ, ἃ δή φασι διὰ λύπην θρηνοῦντα ᾄδειν. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 508:1)
  • ταῦτα τοίνυν αὐτοί τε ποιεῖτε, ἵν εὐορκῆτε, καὶ τοὺς προγόνους ὀργίζεσθ ἂν μή τις φῇ ποιεῖν, καὶ τοὺς τὰ τοιαῦτα λέγοντας παραδείγματα, ὡς ἄρ ἐκεῖνοι μεγάλ εὖ παθόντες οὐδέν ἐτίμησαν, καὶ πονηροὺς καὶ ἀπαιδεύτους ἡγεῖσθ εἶναι, πονηροὺς μὲν διότι καταψεύδονται τῶν προγόνων ὑμῶν ὡς ἀχαρίστων, ἀμαθεῖς δὲ διότι ἐκεῖν ἀγνοοῦσιν, ὅτι εἰ τὰ μάλιστα ταῦθ οὕτως εἶχεν, ἀρνεῖσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ λέγειν αὐτοῖς προσῆκεν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 158:6)
  • μὴ τοίνυν, ἦν δ ἐγώ, μηδὲ τάδε πειθώμεθα μηδ ἐῶμεν λέγειν, ὡς Θησεὺς Ποσειδῶνος ὑὸς Πειρίθους τε Διὸς ὡρ´μησαν οὕτως ἐπὶ δεινὰς ἁρπαγάς, μηδέ τιν ἄλλον θεοῦ παῖδά τε καὶ ἡρ´ω τολμῆσαι ἂν δεινὰ καὶ ἀσεβῆ ἐργάσασθαι, οἱᾶ νῦν καταψεύδονται αὐτῶν: (Plato, Republic, book 3 100:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν εἴ γε καταψεύδονται, ἀγαπᾶν εἰκὸς ἦν μὴ πάσχοντας κακῶς, οὐκ ἀγανακτεῖν, εἰ μὴ λέγειν κακῶς αὐτοῖς ἐξέσται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:23)
  • οὐκ ἔστιν, ἀλλ οὗτοι δι ἔχθραν καταψεύδονταί μου, καταψευδομαρτυροῦμαι, τὰ τοιαῦτα: (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 181:3)

Synonyms

  1. to tell lies against

  2. to allege falsely against

  3. to be falsely reported

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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