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ψεύστης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψεύστης ψεύστου

Structure: ψευστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: yeu/dw

Sense

  1. a liar, cheat
  2. lying, false

Declension

First 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

  • Ἐπαίνετοσ πάντων ἔφη τοὺσ ψεύστασ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων καὶ τῶν ἀδικημάτων αἰτίουσ εἶναι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, Epainetou, section 11)
  • οὐλόμεναι νήεσσι Καφηρίδεσ, αἵ ποτε νόστον ὠλέσαθ’ Ἑλλήνων καὶ στόλον Ἰλιόθεν, πυρσὸσ ὅτε ψεύστασ χθονίησ δνοφερώτερα νυκτὸσ ἧψε σέλα, τυφλὴ δ’ ἔδραμε πᾶσα τρόπισ χοιράδασ ἐσ πέτρασ, Δαναοῖσ πάλιν Ἴλιοσ ἄλλη ἔπλετε, καὶ δεκέτουσ ἐχθρότεραι πολέμου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2891)
  • τίσ ὁ ψεύστασ στυγνὰ καθᾶψε μάτην ἔντεα; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3212)
  • οὕτω γὰρ μάλιστα μήτε τοὺσ εὐφυεῖσ τῶν βραδυτέρων πλεονεκτήσειν μήτε τοὺσ ἐνηθληκότασ τῶν ἀπείρων μήτε τοὺσ ψεύστασ καὶ τολμηροὺσ τῶν φιλαλήθων καὶ κατεσταλμένων τοῖσ ἤθεσι, πάντασ δ’ ἐπ’ ἴσησ τεύξεσθαι τῶν δικαίων, ἱκανὸν χρόνον ἐκ τῶν νόμων λαμβανόντων τῶν μὲν ἀντιδίκων ἐξετάσαι τὰ παρ’ ἀλλήλων, τῶν δὲ δικαστῶν συγκρῖναι τὰ παρ’ ἀμφοτέρων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 76 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. lying

Related

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

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