ἀψεύδεια
καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ νικᾶν κακῶς → I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by evil | I prefer to fail by acting rightly rather than win by acting wrongly | Better fail by doing right, than win by doing wrong (Sophocles, Philoctetes 95)
English (LSJ)
ἡ, truthfulness, Corinn.Supp.2.70, Pl.R. 485c, Iamb. Protr.20; reliability, of times and seasons, Arist.Mu.397a11: ἀψευδία, Ph. Fr.110H., Them.Or.21.257c.
Spanish (DGE)
-ας, ἡ
• Alolema(s): ἀψεύδια Corinn.1.3.31; ἀψευδία Ph.Fr.110, Them.Or.21.257c
veracidad προφάτας ... λαχὼν ἀψεύδιαν Corinn.l.c., op. τὸ ψεῦδος Pl.R.485c, cf. Them.l.c., Iambl.Protr.20, Marin.Procl.4, ἐνέχυρον οὐ μικρὸν ἀψευδίας αἰδὼς ἡ πρὸς θεόν Ph.l.c., τὴν ἀψεύδειαν ἠγάπα Dam.Fr.45
•seguridad, certidumbre de las estaciones, Arist.Mu.397a11.
German (Pape)
[Seite 421] ἡ, Truglosigkeit, Wahrheit, Plat. Rep. VI, 785 c; Arist.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
1 véracité, sincérité;
2 certitude.
Étymologie: ἀψευδής.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἀψεύδεια: ἡ
1 правдивость, искренность Plat.;
2 непреложность, точность (ἣν φυλάττουσιν αἱ ὧραι Arst.).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀψεύδεια: ἡ, τὸ μὴ ψεύδεσθαι, ἀλήθεια, Πλάτ. Πολ. 485C· ἀψευδία Θεμίστ. 257C.
Greek Monolingual
ἀψεύδεια και ἀψευδία, η (Α) αψευδής
1. το να μη λέει κάποιος ψέματα, η φιλαλήθεια
2. η φερεγγυότητα.
Greek Monotonic
ἀψεύδεια: ἡ, ειλικρίνεια, σε Πλάτ.
Middle Liddell
[from ἀψευδής
truthfulness, Plat.
Translations
veracity
Arabic: صِدْق; Bulgarian: правдивост; Catalan: veracitat; Czech: pravdomluvnost; Danish: oprigtighed; Esperanto: vereco; Finnish: todenmukaisuus, totuudenmukaisuus; French: véracité; Galician: veracidade; Georgian: სიმართლე, უტყუარობა; German: Aufrichtigkeit, Wahrhaftigkeit; Greek: ειλικρίνεια, εγκυρότητα, αλήθεια; Ancient Greek: ἀλήθεια, ἀλαθοσύνη, ἀληθοσύνη, ἀληθινολογία, ἀξιοπιστία, ἀψεύδεια, τἀληθές, τὸ ἀληθευτικόν; Portuguese: veracidade; Russian: правдивость; Spanish: veracidad; Swedish: sanning, uppriktighet; Tagalog: katotohanan; Telugu: బొంకమి
sincerity
Arabic: إِخْلَاص; Azerbaijani: səmimilik, səmimiyyət; Belarusian: шчырасць, адкрытасць; Bulgarian: искреност; Catalan: sinceritat; Cebuano: sinceridad; Chinese Mandarin: 真誠／真诚, 真心, 誠實／诚实, 真摯／真挚, 誠意／诚意; Czech: upřímnost; Danish: oprigtighed; Dutch: oprechtheid; Esperanto: sincereco; Finnish: rehellisyys, vilpittömyys; French: sincérité; German: Aufrichtigkeit, Ehrlichkeit; Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹, 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰; Greek: ειλικρίνεια; Ancient Greek: ἀλάθεα, ἀλαθεία, ἀλάθεια, ἀλήθεια, ἀληθείη, ἀπλαστία, ἁπλότης, ἀφθαρσία, ἀψεύδεια, γνησιότης, εἰλικρίνεια, εἰλικρινότης, τἀληθές, τὸ γνήσιον, φιλαλήθεια; Hungarian: egyenesség, őszinteség; Italian: sincerità; Japanese: 誠実, 誠意; Khmer: ភាពស្មោះ; Korean: 성실(誠實), 성의(誠意); Latin: sinceritas; Macedonian: искреност; Malayalam: ആത്മാർത്ഥത; Norwegian Bokmål: oppriktighet; Polish: szczerość; Portuguese: sinceridade; Romanian: sinceritate; Russian: искренность, откровенность, честность; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: и̏скрено̄ст; Roman: ȉskrenōst; Slovak: úprimnosť; Slovene: iskrenost; Spanish: sinceridad; Swedish: uppriktighet; Thai: ความจริงใจ; Turkish: samimiyet; Ukrainian: щирість, відвертість; Vietnamese: sự chân thành
