perfid

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French perfide (perfidious), from Latin perfidus (faitheless).

Adjective

perfid

  1. vicious, spiteful, malicious, sadistic, low-minded; snide, insinuating (in one's utterance about a person or matter)
    Hun skrev en perfid artikel om borgmesterens privatliv.
    She wrote a malicious article about the mayor's private life.
    Han blev perfid og sarkastisk, når han var i dårligt humør.
    He became viciously spiteful and sarcastic when he was in a bad mood.
  2. (mostly older language) perfidious, manipulative
    Det var en perfid og løgnagtig påstand.
    It was a perfidious and mendacious claim.

Inflection

Inflection of perfid
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular perfid 2
Neuter singular perfidt 2
Plural perfide 2
Definite attributive1 perfide
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Synonyms

  • perfiditet

References

Hungarian

Etymology

From Viennese German perfid, from the French perfide (perfidious), from the Latin perfidus (faitheless).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛrfid]
  • Rhymes: -id

Adjective

perfid (comparative perfidebb, superlative legperfidebb)

  1. (archaic) perfidious
    Synonym: hitszegő

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative perfid perfidek
accusative perfidet perfideket
dative perfidnek perfideknek
instrumental perfiddel perfidekkel
causal-final perfidért perfidekért
translative perfiddé perfidekké
terminative perfidig perfidekig
essive-formal perfidként perfidekként
essive-modal perfidül
inessive perfidben perfidekben
superessive perfiden perfideken
adessive perfidnél perfideknél
illative perfidbe perfidekbe
sublative perfidre perfidekre
allative perfidhez perfidekhez
elative perfidből perfidekből
delative perfidről perfidekről
ablative perfidtől perfidektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
perfidé perfideké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
perfidéi perfidekéi

Further reading

  • perfid in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French perfide.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /perˈfid/

Adjective

perfid m or n (feminine singular perfidă, masculine plural perfizi, feminine and neuter plural perfide)

  1. perfidious

Declension

Further reading

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