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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

  • ὦ γενναῖε, ταῦτα μὲν ἤδη καὶ παρ ἄλλων ἐπυθόμην, οὐ μὰ Δία σκώπτειν αὐτοὺς καὶ ὀνειδίζειν βουλομένων ὥστε οὐδέν τί μοι δοκεῖς χαριζόμενος τῇ σεαυτοῦ τέχνῃ καταψεύδεσθαι τῶν ἀνδρῶν. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 43:11)
  • καὶ καταψεύδου καλῶς ὡς ἔστι, Σεμέλη θ ἵνα δοκῇ θεὸν τεκεῖν, ἡμῖν τε τιμὴ παντὶ τῷ γένει προσῇ. (Euripides, episode 13:10)
  • καὶ εἴ σοι ταῦτα καταψεύδεσθαι αὐτῶν δοκοῦμεν, τὸν ὑμέτερον παράσιτον ἀναμνήσθητι τὸν Ἰξίονα, ὃς ἀξιωθεὶς κοινῆς τραπέζης, ἀξίωμα ἴσον ἔχων ὑμῖν, τῇ Ἥρᾳ μεθυσθεὶς ἐπεχείρει ὁ γενναῖος. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 4 3:4)
  • 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)
  • τούτῳ μὲν οὖν ἔξεστιν, <ὦ> ἄνδρες δικασταί, καὶ λέγειν ὅ τι ἂν βούληται καὶ καταψεύδεσθαι, ὑμᾶς δ οἶμαι δεῖν οὐκ ἐκ τῶν τοῦ κατηγόρου διαβολῶν περὶ ἐμοῦ δικάζειν, ἀλλ ἐξ ἅπαντος τοῦ βίου ὃν βεβίωκα ἐξετάσαντας. (Hyperides, Speeches, 21:1)

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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