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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

  • ταῦτα οὐκ ἐνυπνίοισ ἐοικότα τῷ ὄντι καὶ ἀπιθάνοισ ψεύσμασιν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 162:1)
  • πολλοὶ γὰρ τὴν περὶ Νέρωνα συντετάχασιν ἱστορίαν, ὧν οἱ μὲν διὰ χάριν εὖ πεπονθότεσ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ τῆσ ἀληθείασ ἠμέλησαν, οἱ δὲ διὰ μῖσοσ καὶ τὴν πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀπέχθειαν οὕτωσ ἀναιδῶσ ἐνεπαρῴνησαν τοῖσ ψεύσμασιν, ὡσ ἀξίουσ αὐτοὺσ εἶναι καταγνώσεωσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 20 190:2)

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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