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καταψεύδομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

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 ὡρ́μησαν οὕτωσ ἐπὶ δεινὰσ ἁρπαγάσ, μηδέ τιν’ ἄλλον θεοῦ παῖδά τε καὶ ἡρ́ω 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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