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ὑποκρισία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποκρισία

Structure: ὑποκρισι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: rarer form for u(po/krisis II, Anth.

Sense

Declension

First declension

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

  • Κροῖσοσ δέ οἱ ἐπαλιλλόγησε πᾶσαν τὴν ἑωυτοῦ διάνοιαν καὶ τῶν χρηστηρίων τὰσ ὑποκρίσιασ καὶ μάλιστα τὰ ἀναθήματα, καὶ ὡσ ἐπαερθεὶσ τῷ μαντηίῳ ἐστρατεύσατο ἐπὶ Πέρσασ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 90 4:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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