Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑποκριτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποκριτικός ὑποκριτική ὑποκριτικόν

Structure: ὑποκριτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. belonging to, having a good delivery
  2. suited for speaking or delivery, the art of delivery
  3. pretending to

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἐκείνη μὲν οὖν ὅταν ἔλθῃ ταὐτὸ ποιήσει τῇ ὑποκριτικῇ, ἐγκεχειρήκασιν δὲ ἐπ’ ὀλίγον περὶ αὐτῆσ εἰπεῖν τινέσ, οἱο͂ν Θρασύμαχοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ἐλέοισ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 7:1)
  • διὸ καὶ αἱ τέχναι συνέστησαν ἥ τε ῥαψῳδία καὶ ἡ ὑποκριτικὴ καὶ ἄλλαι γε. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 8:3)
  • ἔστι γὰρ ὑποκριτική. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 12 2:8)

Synonyms

  1. pretending to

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

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