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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

  • ταὐτὸ δὴ καὶ ἡμᾶσ ἀξιοῦσι ποιεῖν εἰσ τὰ συμπόσια τὴν μουσικὴν καὶ τὴν ὑποκριτικὴν ἐπεισάγοντασ φιλοσοφίαν δὲ μὴ κινοῦντασ, ὡσ οὔτε συμπαίζειν ἐκείνην ἐπιτήδειον οὖσαν οὔθ’ ἡμᾶσ τηνικαῦτα σπουδαστικῶσ ἔχοντασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 5:2)
  • τέταρτον δέ φαμεν εἶναι ἀγαθόν, οἱο͂ν αὐλητικὴν καὶ ὑποκριτικὴν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 100:5)
  • τέταρτον δὲ αὐλητικὴν καὶ ὑποκριτικὴν καὶ ποιητικὴν ἀγαθὸν λέγομεν εἶναι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 100:8)

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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