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

  • Ἡγησιάνακτα γοῦν τὸν Ἀλεξανδρέα τὸν τὰσ ἱστορίασ γράψαντα κατ’ ἀρχὰσ ὄντα πένητα καὶ τραγῳδὸν φησι γενέσθαι καὶ ὑποκριτικὸν καὶ εὐήχον, ὀκτωκαίδεκα ἔτη σύκων μὴ γευσάμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 19 2:2)
  • καὶ ἔστιν φύσεωσ τὸ ὑποκριτικὸν εἶναι, καὶ ἀτεχνότερον, περὶ δὲ τὴν λέξιν ἔντεχνον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 7:2)

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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