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Yiddish
Etymology
היפּאָקריט (hipokrit) + ־סטווע (-stve), or borrowed from uncommon Russian гипокри́тство (gipokrítstvo), Ukrainian гіпокрі́тство (hipokrítstvo). Ultimately from Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “I answer, act, feign”).
Pronunciation
Noun
היפּאָקריטסטווע • (hipokritstve) f
- hypocrisy
- Synonyms: היפּאָקריטישקייט (hipokritishkeyt), צבֿיעות (tsvies), צבֿועצטווע (tsvu(y)atstve), פֿאַלשקייט (falshkeyt)
References
- Justus van de Kamp et al., “היפּאָקריטסטװע” in Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek , Amsterdam: Stichting Jiddische Lexicografie, 1987-present (ongoing). .
- Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry (2013) “היפּאָקריטסטווע”, in Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN
- Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “hypocrisy”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN