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OK, I've look it up in Alexander Souter's A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 AD. There's about 1 1/3 columns of words beginnig in pseudo-, e.g., pseudoapostolus 'false apostle' to pseudothyrum 'false (secret) door'. Name that keeps cropping up is [Sophronius Eusebius] Hier[onymus] aka Jerome, he of the Vulgate. So, it became a kind of prefix with the Church Fathers.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Pseudo-etymology TheFallibleFiend 09/14/07 11:36 PM Re: Pseudo-etymology zmjezhd 09/15/07 12:23 AM Re: Pseudo-etymology zmjezhd 09/15/07 12:55 AM Re: Pseudo-etymology tsuwm 09/15/07 12:28 AM
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