"perfidious" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /pɚˈfɪdi.əs/ [US], /pəˈfɪdi.əs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-perfidious.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more perfidious [comparative], most perfidious [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin perfidiōsus (“treacherous”), from perfidia. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|perfidiōsus||treacherous}} Latin perfidiōsus (“treacherous”), {{m|la|perfidia}} perfidia Head templates: {{en-adj}} perfidious (comparative more perfidious, superlative most perfidious)
  1. Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance. Synonyms (disloyal): disloyal, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful Derived forms: Perfidious Albion, perfidiously, perfidiousness, unperfidious Related terms: perfidy Translations (pertaining to perfidy): коварен (kovaren) (Bulgarian), вероломен (verolomen) (Bulgarian), предателски (predatelski) (Bulgarian), 背信弃义的 (Chinese Mandarin), verraderlijk (Dutch), perfide (Dutch), doortrapt (Dutch), petollinen (Finnish), perfide (French), perfide (German), παράσπονδος (paráspondos) (Greek), hitszegő (Hungarian), álnok (Hungarian), csalárd (Hungarian), áruló (Hungarian), szószegő (Hungarian), alattomos (Hungarian), perfid (Hungarian), galád (Hungarian), alávaló (Hungarian), aljas (Hungarian), hitvány (Hungarian), perfida (Ido), perfidus (Latin), nfame (Neapolitan), ontru (Plautdietsch), pérfido (Portuguese), desleal (Portuguese), вероло́мный (verolómnyj) (Russian), преда́тельский (predátelʹskij) (Russian), кова́рный (kovárnyj) (Russian), pérfido (Spanish), hain (Turkish), kalleş (Turkish), віроломний (virolomnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), зрадливий (zradlyvyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-perfidious-en-adj-Le8yRn-t Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.