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)
  • 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)
  • καὶ ἔστιν φύσεωσ τὸ ὑποκριτικὸν εἶναι, καὶ ἀτεχνότερον, περὶ δὲ τὴν λέξιν ἔντεχνον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 7:2)
  • διὸ καὶ αἱ τέχναι συνέστησαν ἥ τε ῥαψῳδία καὶ ἡ ὑποκριτικὴ καὶ ἄλλαι γε. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 8:3)
  • ἔστι δὲ λέξισ γραφικὴ μὲν ἡ ἀκριβεστάτη, ἀγωνιστικὴ δὲ ἡ ὑποκριτικωτάτη ταύτησ δὲ δύο εἴδη· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 12 2:1)

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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