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ψεῦσμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψεῦσμα ψεῦσματος

Structure: ψευσματ (Stem)

Etym.: yeu/dw

Sense

  1. a lie, untruth

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ἐκεῖνο δὲ τοῦ Κτησίου λαμπρὸν ἤδη ψεῦσμα, τὸ πεμφθῆναι φάναι πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ αὐτὸν μετὰ Φαλίνου τοῦ Ζακυνθίου καί τινων ἄλλων. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 13 3:4)
  • τὸ δὲ ψεῦσμα λόγων οὐ δεόμενον, ἀλλ’ ἐκ τῶν ἔργων περιφανέσ· (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 14:1)
  • εἶπον καὶ μὴ φθονήσῃσ, ἵνα εὐτυχέστατον ψεῦσμα ἐψευσμένοσ ὦ, ἂν φανῇσ σὺ μὲν εἰδὼσ καὶ Γοργίασ, ἐγὼ δὲ εἰρηκὼσ μηδενὶ πώποτε εἰδότι ἐντετυχηκέναι. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 10:6)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐσθὴσ καὶ ὑπόδεσισ καὶ τοιαῦθ’ ἕτερα τὸ ψεῦσμα ἐλέγχει. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 202:5)
  • καὶ τί γένοιτ’ ἂν τούτου τραγικώτερον ψεῦσμα, ἄν τ’ Εὐριπίδησ ἄν τ’ Αἰσχύλοσ αὐτὸ συνθῇ; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. a lie

Related

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

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