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perfidia

faithlessness* (PL+), perfididsus

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Where it lives

Lysander 2 · 37.04/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Eumenes 2 · 8.74/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 3 · 6.3/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
Historiae 2 · 4.93/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Historiae 20 · 3.89/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 5 · 3.77/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k

Densest 12 of 75 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. perfidia — de Vaan

perfidia 'faithlessness* (PL+), perfididsus 'treacherous' (PL+); confidere 'to put one's trust in, be sure' (PL+), confidentia 'self-confidence' (Naev.+), confidentiloquus 'speaking audaciously' (PL), dijfidere 'to have no confidence in' (PL+). Pit *feipe- [v.], *feipo- [adj.], *fip-e- [£], *foipo- [m.], *feip-os- [nj 'trust'. It. cognates: U. kumpifiatu, kupifiatu, combifiatu [3s.ipv.II]3 kupifiaia [3s.pr.sb.], … — [de Vaan, s.v. perfidia, p. 232]

2. perfĭdĭa — Lewis & Short

perfĭdĭa, ae, f.perfidus,

I faithlessness, dishonesty, treachery, falsehood, perfidy (class.): perfidiā deceptus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110: fraude et perfidiā aliquem fallere, id. ib. 40, 117; id. Fam. 1, 2, 3: admittere perfidiam in aliquem, Suet. Caes. 75: perfidiae tantae (fuit), ut, etc., id. Ner. 5: repens, Tac. H. 4, 25; Juv. 13, 24.—In plur., Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 7; id. Ps. 2, 1, 6; Gell. 14, 2, 6.—Of an inanim. thing: sub ipsis positum labris in acoris perfidiam vinum repente mutari, Arn. 1, 12.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. perfidia (scan pp. 232-233; entry #572). Root candidates: *feipe-, *feipo-, *foipo-.

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