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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

  • Μηδ’ ὑποκρίνεσθε ἐλεεῖν ἱερὰ καὶ ἑστίασ καὶ ἀγορὰσ καὶ τάφουσ· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 10:1)
  • καὶ φατὲ μὲν εἶναι φίλοι καὶ σύμμαχοι, καὶ ὑποκρίνεσθε οὕτω, χρῆσθε δὲ ὡσ πολεμίῳ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3 2:4)
  • ἠδικούμην δὲ δή που σαφῶσ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἀδίκημα συμμαχίαν αἰτῶν καὶ παρορώμενοσ ὑπὸ τῶν παιδευσάντων καὶ θρεψάντων, τὸ δὲ ἑξῆσ προτιμώντων μου Δολοβέλλαν, ὃν οὐκ ἐπαίδευσαν οὐδὲ ἀνέθρεψαν, τὸ δὲ ἀνιαρότερον, ἐμοῦ μὲν καὶ Βρούτου καὶ ὅσων ὁρᾶτε ἀπὸ τῆσ βουλῆσ ἀρίστων ἀνδρῶν φευγόντων τυραννίδα καὶ τὴν πατρίδα ἐλευθερούντων, ὦ Ῥόδιοι φιλελεύθεροι, Δολοβέλλα δὲ αὐτὴν καταδουλοῦντοσ ἑτέροισ, οἷσ δὴ καὶ ὑμεῖσ εὔνωσ ἔχοντεσ ὑποκρίνεσθε ἐξίστασθαι τοῖσ ἐμφυλίοισ ἡμῶν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 9 5:4)
  • φιλίαν τε Ῥωμαίοισ προφέροντεσ οὐκ ἐλεεῖτε ἀκρίτουσ ἐπὶ θανάτῳ καὶ δημεύσει προγραφομένουσ, ἀλλ’ ὑποκρίνεσθε πεύσεσθαι τῆσ βουλῆσ τῆσ ταῦτα πασχούσησ καὶ οὐδὲ ἀμύνειν ἑαυτῇ πω δυναμένησ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 9 5:7)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ νῦν μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων ἑστήκατε καὶ οὐδ’ ἐν ἐσχάτοισ ὑποκρίνεσθε γοῦν ἱκέτασ, ὦ ταλαίπωροι, τίνι πεποιθότεσ; (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 391:1)

Synonyms

  1. to answer

  2. to interpret

  3. to feign

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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