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ψευδώνυμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψευδώνυμος ψευδώνυμον

Structure: ψευδωνυμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/noma

Sense

  1. under a false name, falsely called, by a false name

Examples

  • ἥξεισ δ’ Ὑβριστὴν ποταμὸν οὐ ψευδώνυμον, ὃν μὴ περάσῃσ, οὐ γὰρ εὔβατοσ περᾶν, πρὶν ἂν πρὸσ αὐτὸν Καύκασον μόλῃσ, ὀρῶν ὕψιστον, ἔνθα ποταμὸσ ἐκφυσᾷ μένοσ κροτάφων ἀπ’ αὐτῶν. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. under a false name

Related

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

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