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perfide

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French

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Etymology

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    Learned borrowing from Latin perfidus.

    Pronunciation

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    Adjective

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    perfide (plural perfides)

    1. (relational) perfidious
      perfide Albion(please add an English translation of this usage example)
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    Descendants

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    • Danish: perfid
    • German: perfide
    • Romanian: perfid

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    German

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French perfide, from Latin perfidus.

    Pronunciation

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    Adjective

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    perfide (strong nominative masculine singular perfider, comparative perfider, superlative am perfidesten)

    1. perfidious
      Synonyms: arglistig, bösartig, böse, boshaft, diabolisch, hinterhältig, hinterlistig, niederträchtig, ruchlos, schändlich, schmählich, verschlagen

    Declension

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    Descendants

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    Further reading

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    • perfide” in Duden online
    • perfide”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)

    Italian

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    perfide

    1. feminine plural of perfido

    Latin

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    perfide

    1. vocative masculine singular of perfidus

    References

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    • perfide”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • perfide”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.