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Forms: perfida (data provider: perseus), perfidae (data provider: perseus), perfide (data provider: perseus), perfidi (data provider: perseus), perfidis (data provider: perseus), perfidissimus (data provider: perseus), perfido (data provider: perseus), perfidorum (data provider: perseus), perfidos (data provider: perseus), perfidum (data provider: perseus), perfidus (data provider: perseus)
Dictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- perfĭdus, a, um, adj. [per-fides], that breaks his promise, faithless, false, dishonest, treacherous, perfidious. I. Lit. (class.;
syn. infidus): vanum et perfidiosum esse
, Cic. Quint. 6, 26: omnes, aliud agentes, aliud simulantes, perfidi, improbi, malitiosi sunt
, id. Off. 3, 14, 60.—(b). With gen. (poet.): gens perfida pacti
, faithless
, Sil. 1, 5.—b. Of inanim. and abstr. things (poet.): bella
, Sil. 15, 819: nex
, effected by treachery
, Sen. Agam. 887: arma
, Ov. F. 4, 380: verba
, id. R. Am. 722.—c. Adverb.: perfidum ridens Venus (= maligne ac dolose), Hor. C. 3, 27, 67.—As subst.: perfĭdus, i, m., a scoundrel, Juv. 13, 245; 9, 82.—II. Transf., treacherous, unsafe, dangerous (poet. and in post-class. prose): freta
, Sen. Med. 302: saxa
, id. Agam. 570: perfidum glacie flumen
, Flor. 3, 4, 5: perfida et lubrica via
, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 49: vappa
, wretched wine that has a good appearance
, Mart. 12, 48, 14.—Sup.: homo, quoad vixerat, perfidissimus
, Amm. 16, 12, 25.—Adv.: perfĭ-dē, faithlessly, perfidiously, treacherously (post-Aug.): perfide recuperans
, Sen. Contr. 4, 26: rumpere pactum
, Gell. 20, 1, 54: agere
, Dig. 26, 7, 55: quod perfide gestum est
, ib. 44, 4, 4, 13.
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