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ὑποκρίνομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: hypokrinomai

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

  • ἢν μὲν οὖν κατ᾿ ἀξίαν ὑποδὺς τὸ σὸν πρόσωπον ὑποκρίνωμαι, εὖ ἂν ἡμῖν ἔχοι καὶ τῷ Λογίῳ θύσομεν: (Lucian, Apologia 6:3)
  • οὓς καὶ σὺ γιγνώσκων ὑποκρίνῃ ἀγνοεῖν κἀμὲ κατασοφίζῃ ὥς τινος αὐτοῖς αἰσχύνης ἐντεῦθεν γιγνομένης, οὐχὶ τιμῆς. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 31:6)
  • εἰ δ ἔστιν ἀληθῆ ἃ περὶ ψυχῆς ὁ Πλάτων λέγει, τὰ τρία μέρη αὐτῆς καλῶς ὁ ὀρχηστὴς δείκνυσιν, τὸ θυμικὸν ὅταν ὀργιζόμενον ἐπιδείκνυται, τὸ ἐπιθυμητικὸν ὅταν ἐρῶντας ὑποκρίνηται, τὸ λογιστικὸν ὅταν ἕκαστα τῶν παθῶν χαλιναγωγῇ: (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 70:1)
  • ἵν οὖν μὴ καὶ αὐτὸς ἐλέγχωμαι πάνυ μεῖζον τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ κεφαλῆς προσωπεῖον περικείμενος καὶ τὴν σκευὴν καταισχύνων, ἀπὸ γυμνοῦ σοι βούλομαι τοὐμοῦ προσώπου προσλαλεῖν, ἵνα μὴ συγκατασπάσω που πεσὼν τὸν ἡρ´ωα ὃν ὑποκρίνομαι. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 11:3)
  • γελοῖον γὰρ ὑπὲρ τοιούτου ῥήτορος ἐμὲ ποιεῖσθαι τοὺς λόγους, φαῦλον ὑποκριτὴν ἴσως τῶν τοιούτων καὶ τηλικούτων, μὴ καὶ συντρίψω που πεσὼν τὸν ἡρ´ωα ὃν ὑποκρίνομαι. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 12:1)
  • ὧν αἰσθανόμενος ὑπηρετεῖν ὑποκρίνομαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 7 6:5)

Synonyms

  1. to answer

  2. to interpret

  3. to feign

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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