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

Noun

ῠ̔ποκρῐτής • (hŭpokrĭtḗs) m (genitive ῠ̔ποκρῐτοῦ); first declension

1. one who answers: interpreter, expounder
2. (Attic) stage actor
   1. (figurative) pretender, dissembler, hypocrite

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ῠ̔ποκρῐτής; τοῦ ῠ̔ποκρῐτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῠ̔ποκρῐτής ho hŭpokrĭtḗs	τὼ ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾱ́ tṑ hŭpokrĭtā́	οἱ ῠ̔ποκρῐταί hoi hŭpokrĭtaí
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔ποκρῐτοῦ toû hŭpokrĭtoû	τοῖν ῠ̔ποκρῐταῖν toîn hŭpokrĭtaîn	τῶν ῠ̔ποκρῐτῶν tôn hŭpokrĭtôn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔ποκρῐτῇ tōî hŭpokrĭtēî	τοῖν ῠ̔ποκρῐταῖν toîn hŭpokrĭtaîn	τοῖς ῠ̔ποκρῐταῖς toîs hŭpokrĭtaîs
Accusative	τὸν ῠ̔ποκρῐτήν tòn hŭpokrĭtḗn	τὼ ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾱ́ tṑ hŭpokrĭtā́	τοὺς ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾱ́ς toùs hŭpokrĭtā́s
Vocative	ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾰ́ hŭpokrĭtắ	ῠ̔ποκρῐτᾱ́ hŭpokrĭtā́	ῠ̔ποκρῐταί hŭpokrĭtaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: υποκριτής (ypokritís)
  • → Aromanian: ipucrit.
• Latin: hypocrita
  • → Catalan: hipòcrita
  • → French: hypocrite
    • → Romanian: ipocrit.
  • → Italian: ipocrita
  • → Portuguese: hipócrita
  • → Spanish: hipócrita
• → Old Church Slavonic: ѵпокри́тъ (üpokrítŭ)
  • → Russian: ипокри́т (ipokrít)

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.