ὑπόκρισις

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.pó.kri.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yˈpo.kri.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈpo.kri.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈpo.kri.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈpo.kri.sis/

Noun

ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐς • (hupókrisis) f (genitive ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεως); third declension

1. reply, answer
2. the part of an actor or orator: delivery, delivery, elocution, act
3. outward show, hypocrisy, pretense

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐς; τῆς ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐς hē hupókrisis	τὼ ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σει tṑ hupokrísei	αἱ ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεις hai hupokríseis
Genitive	τῆς ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεως tês hupokríseōs	τοῖν ῠ̔ποκρῐσέοιν toîn hupokriséoin	τῶν ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεων tôn hupokríseōn
Dative	τῇ ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σει têi hupokrísei	τοῖν ῠ̔ποκρῐσέοιν toîn hupokriséoin	ταῖς ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεσῐ / ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεσῐν taîs hupokrísesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐν tḕn hupókrisin	τὼ ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σει tṑ hupokrísei	τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεις tā̀s hupokríseis
Vocative	ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐ hupókrisi	ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σει hupokrísei	ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεις hupokríseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: hypocrisis

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