Pseudothyrum, ri, n. g. pen. prod. Cice. A posterne gate. A backe dore.Pseudodelphus.A counterfaite brother.Pseudangelus.A false messenger.Pseudographus.A counterfaite writer.Pseudologus.A lyar: a false speaker.Pseudolus.A false seruaunt.Pseudonardus.Spyke.Pseudomartyr.A false witnesse.Pseudonymus.He that hath a counterfaite name.Pseudourbana ædificia.Houses in the conntry trimmed lyke citie houses.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pseudŏthrum, i, n., = yeudo/quron. I.Lit., a backdoor, private entrance, postern-gate: palatii, Amm. 14, 1, 3; Oros. 7, 6 fin.—II.Trop., a secret manner: (nummi) per pseudothyrum revertantur, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, 50: non janua receptis, sed pseudothyro intromissis voluptatibus, id. Red. in Sen. 6, 14.