perfid

Borrowed from French perfide (“perfidious”), from Latin perfidus (“faitheless”).

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.

• ondskabsfuld, nederdrægtig, led, nedrig, nedladende; bagtalende, fornærmende, injurierende
• troløs, falsk; vildledende, manipulerende, fordrejende, forvrænget, lumsk

• perfiditet

• “perfid” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Viennese German perfid, from French perfide (“perfidious”), from Latin perfidus (“faitheless”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛrfid]
• Rhymes: -id

perfid (comparative perfidebb, superlative legperfidebb)

1. (archaic) perfidious

   Synonym: hitszegő

• perfid in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Borrowed from French perfide.

• IPA^(key): /perˈfid/

perfid m or n (feminine singular perfidă, masculine plural perfizi, feminine and neuter plural perfide)

1. perfidious

• “perfid”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025