ὑποκριτής
See also: υποκριτής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “to play a part on stage”) + -τής (-tḗs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hy.po.kri.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)y.po.kriˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /y.po.kriˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /y.po.kriˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.po.kriˈtis/
Noun
ῠ̔ποκρῐτής • (hupokritḗs) m (genitive ῠ̔ποκρῐτοῦ); first declension
- one who answers: interpreter, expounder
- (Attic) stage actor
- (figuratively) pretender, dissembler, hypocrite
Inflection
First declension of ὁ ῠ̔ποκρῐτής; τοῦ ῠ̔ποκρῐτοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῠ̔ποκρῐτής ho hupokritḗs | τὼ ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾱ́ tṑ hupokritā́ | οἱ ῠ̔ποκρῐταί hoi hupokritaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῠ̔ποκρῐτοῦ toû hupokritoû | τοῖν ῠ̔ποκρῐταῖν toîn hupokritaîn | τῶν ῠ̔ποκρῐτῶν tôn hupokritôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῠ̔ποκρῐτῇ tôi hupokritêi | τοῖν ῠ̔ποκρῐταῖν toîn hupokritaîn | τοῖς ῠ̔ποκρῐταῖς toîs hupokritaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῠ̔ποκρῐτήν tòn hupokritḗn | τὼ ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾱ́ tṑ hupokritā́ | τοὺς ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾱ́ς toùs hupokritā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾰ́ hupokritá | ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾱ́ hupokritā́ | ῠ̔ποκρῐταί hupokritaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: υποκριτής (ypokritís)
- Latin: hypocrita
- French: hypocrite
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.
- actor idem, page 10.
- performer idem, page 607.
- player idem, page 619.