ὑποκριτής

See also: υποκριτής

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/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.po.kri.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)y.po.kriˈtes/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /y.po.kriˈtis/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.po.kriˈtis/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.po.kriˈtis/

Noun

ὑποκριτής • (hupokritḗs) m (genitive ὑποκριτοῦ); first declension

1. one who answers: interpreter, expounder
2. actor, player
3. hypocrite, pretender, one who feigns

Inflection

First declension of ὑποκρῐτής, ὑποκρῐτοῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὑποκρῐτής	τὼ ὑποκρῐτᾱ́	οἱ ὑποκρῐταί
Genitive	τοῦ ὑποκρῐτοῦ	τοῖν ὑποκρῐταῖν	τῶν ὑποκρῐτῶν
Dative	τῷ ὑποκρῐτῇ	τοῖν ὑποκρῐταῖν	τοῖς ὑποκρῐταῖς
Accusative	τὸν ὑποκρῐτήν	τὼ ὑποκρῐτᾱ́	τοὺς ὑποκρῐτᾱ́ς
Vocative	ὑποκρῐτᾰ́	ὑποκρῐτᾱ́	ὑποκρῐταί
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Descendants

• Greek: υποκριτής (ypokritís)
• Latin: hypocrita
  • French: hypocrite

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Actor idem, page 999.
  • actor idem, page 10.
  • performer idem, page 607.
  • player idem, page 619.