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ὑποκρίνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποκρίνομαι

Structure: ὑποκρίν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: later also aor1 and perf. pass. in mid. sense

Sense

  1. to answer
  2. to interpret
  3. to play a part, to be a player
  4. to feign, to dissemble

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Νέαρχοσ δὲ ὑποκρίνεται νήπιον εἶναι Ὀνησίκριτον, εἰ ἀγνοέει ἐπ̓ ὅτῳ ἐστάλη πρὸσ Ἀλεξάνδρου ὁ στόλοσ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 32 10:1)
  • ὑποκρίνεται γὰρ εὐχὰσ καὶ προσκυνήσεισ, οὐδὲν δεόμενοσ, διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν πολλῶν καὶ φθέγγεται φωνὰσ ἐναντίασ οἷσ φιλοσοφεῖ· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 21 14:1)
  • ὁ δὲ βουλόμενοσ εἶναι καὶ δοκεῖν ὁμοίωσ ἡδὺσ ἅμα καὶ πιστὸσ τοῖσ χείροσι μᾶλλον ὑποκρίνεται χαίρειν, ὡσ ὑπὸ τοῦ σφόδρα φιλεῖν οὐδὲ τὰ φαῦλα δυσχεραίνων, ἀλλὰ συμπαθὴσ πᾶσι καὶ συμφυὴσ γιγνόμενοσ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 9 8:3)
  • νῦν δ’ ἐκστὰσ τῆσ ὀρθῆσ καὶ δικαίασ ὁδοῦ καὶ φυγὼν τοὺσ παρ’ αὐτὰ τὰ πράγματ’ ἐλέγχουσ, τοσούτοισ ὕστερον χρόνοισ αἰτίασ καὶ σκώμματα καὶ λοιδορίασ συμφορήσασ ὑποκρίνεται· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 22:1)
  • καὶ ὅταν τινὰ ἐπαμφοτερίζοντα ἴδωμεν, εἰώθαμεν λέγειν "οὐκ ἔστιν Ιοὐδαῖοσ, ἀλλ’ ὑποκρίνεται". (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 20:2)

Synonyms

  1. to answer

  2. to interpret

  3. to feign

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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