pseudo-. False, counterfeit, pretended, or deceptively resembling something. Pseudodìpteral refers to a Classical building with the appearance of being a dipteral temple (with two rows of columns along the longer sides), but with no inner row, leaving a wide passage between cella and peristyle. Pseudo-Gothic is a pejorative term for C18 sham Gothic, and pseudo- is also applied to any style used falsely, e.g. pseudo-Georgian. Pseudoperipteral is applied to a Classical temple with the ‘peristyle’ engaged with the cell wall. Pseudoprostyle describes a prostyle temple without a pronaos, the portico colonnade set closer than an intercolumniation from or engaged with the cella wall behind. Pseudothyrum is a false or secret door.

pseudo- (also pseud- before a vowel) • comb. form 1. supposed or purporting to be but not really so; false; not genuine: pseudonym pseudoscience.2. resembling or imitating: pseudohallucination pseudo-French.

pseudo-, before a vowel pseud-, repr. comb. form of Gr. pseudḗs false, pseûdos falsehood, in comps. adopted (often through L.) from Gr. or modelled on them.