pseudonymous

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Etymology tree

Pre-Greekder.?

Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ēs

Proto-Hellenic *-ēs

Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)

Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs)

Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)

Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥

Proto-Hellenic *ónomə

Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă)

Ancient Greek ὄνῠμᾰ (ónŭmă)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek ψευδώνυμος (pseudṓnumos)bor.

Latin pseudōnymus

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ō̆tsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -ōsus

Old French -usbor.

Middle English -ous

English -ous

English pseudonymous

Adapted borrowing of Latin pseudōnymus +‎ -ous, from Ancient Greek ψευδώνῠμος (pseudṓnŭmos).^[1] By surface analysis, pseudo- +‎ -onymous.

pseudonymous (not generally comparable, comparative more pseudonymous, superlative most pseudonymous)

Of or pertaining to a pseudonym.
(of a name) Having the nature of a pseudonym; fictitious.
- 1984 August 18, Victoria A. Brownworth, “Rights Require Responsibility”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 9:
  The abuse of children that goes on under the pseudonymous and euphemistic titles of "intergenerational sex" and "sexual liberation."
(of an author) Who uses a pseudonym.
Synonym: (obsolete) pseudonym (adjective)

a pseudonymous author
- 2006, Penny McCarthy, Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle‎^[1]:
  My angle has been more positivistic, my interest arising not out of the general phenomenon of pseudonymity, but out of particular puzzles posed by particular texts assigned to one pseudonymous writer.
(of a work) The author of which uses a pseudonym.
a pseudonymous work
(computing, law) Pertaining to pseudonymization.

(of an author) who uses a pseudonym

(of a work) the author of which uses a pseudonym