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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “to play a part on stage”) + -τής (-tḗs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hy.po.kri.tɛ̌ːs/ → /y.po.kriˈtis/ → /i.po.kriˈtis/
Noun
ῠ̔ποκρῐτής • (hupokritḗs) m (genitive ῠ̔ποκρῐτοῦ); first declension
- one who answers: interpreter, expounder
- (Attic) stage actor
- (figurative) pretender, dissembler, hypocrite
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ὑποκριτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑποκριτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὑποκριτής 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
- G5273 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.