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
Indefinte common singular perfid — —2
Indefinite 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

References

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Viennese German perfid, from French perfide (“perfidious”), from 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
Declension of perfid
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite perfid perfidă perfizi perfide
definite perfidul perfida perfizii perfidele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite perfid perfide perfizi perfide
definite perfidului perfidei perfizilor perfidelor

Further reading
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