pseudo-
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pseudo- /ˈs(j)uːdəʊ/ (also pseud- before a vowel)
▶combining form
- 1 false; not genuine: pseudonym.
- 2 resembling or imitating: pseudo-hallucination.
– origin from Gk pseudēs ‘false’, pseudos ‘falsehood’.
'pseudo-' also found in these Oxford entries:
bêche-de-mer
- bon viveur
- celesta
- desperado
- encyclopedia
- faerie
- fayre
- Gothic
- hocus-pocus
- holus-bolus
- kolinsky
- mondo
- olde
- pseud-
- pseudepigrapha
- pseudo
- pseudocarp
- pseudocyesis
- pseudomonas
- pseudomorph
- sanitarium
- skeet
- ye
