Etymograph

English

pseudoconcave

From pseudo- + concave.

Formed from pseudo- + concave

Ancient Greek ψεύδω ‘to lie’

Ancient Greek ψευδής ‘false, lying’

English pseudo-

Proto-Italic *kawos

Latin cavus

Latin concavus ‘concave, hollow’

Old French concave

Middle English concave

English concave

Today it means

adj (said of a function) differentiable and decreasing in any direction where it has a negative directional derivative.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pseudoconcave”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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