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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῠ̔ποκρῑ́νομαι (hupokrī́nomai, “I answer (a fellow actor on stage), play a part, feign, pretend”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hy.pó.kri.sis/ → /yˈpo.kri.sis/ → /iˈpo.kri.sis/
Noun
ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐς • (hupókrisis) f (genitive ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεως); third declension
- reply, answer
- the part of an actor or orator: delivery, delivery, elocution, act
- outward show, hypocrisy, pretense
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ὑπόκρισις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑπόκρισις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὑπόκρισις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “ὑπόκρισις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5272 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible