ὑπόκρισις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῠ̔ποκρῑ́νομαι (hŭpokrī́nomai, “to answer (a fellow actor on stage), play a part, feign, pretend”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).

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 • (hŭpókrĭsĭs) 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 hŭpókrĭsĭs	τὼ ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σει tṑ hŭpokrĭ́sei	αἱ ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεις hai hŭpokrĭ́seis
Genitive	τῆς ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεως tês hŭpokrĭ́seōs	τοῖν ῠ̔ποκρῐσέοιν toîn hŭpokrĭséoin	τῶν ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεων tôn hŭpokrĭ́seōn
Dative	τῇ ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σει tēî hŭpokrĭ́sei	τοῖν ῠ̔ποκρῐσέοιν toîn hŭpokrĭséoin	ταῖς ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεσῐ / ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεσῐν taîs hŭpokrĭ́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐν tḕn hŭpókrĭsĭn	τὼ ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σει tṑ hŭpokrĭ́sei	τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεις tā̀s hŭpokrĭ́seis
Vocative	ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐ hŭpókrĭsĭ	ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σει hŭpokrĭ́sei	ῠ̔ποκρῐ́σεις hŭpokrĭ́seis
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