hypocrisis Latin · revision 4601

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Suetonius|origins=grc ὑποκρίνομαι}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''hypocrisis''' ''f'' (genitive hypocrisis or hypocriseōs or hypocrisios); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ὑπόκρισις|tr=hupókrisis|t=reply; acting on the stage; pretence]],^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) from [[m|grc|ὑποκρίνομαι|tr=hupokrínomai|t=to answer; to play a part]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Suetonius' life of Virgil, preserved by Donatus, uses it of mimicking someone's speech and gestures.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Suetonius c. 75–c. 150 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense was imitation of a person's way of speaking and gestures, mimicry.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In Church Latin it was hypocrisy, pretended piety, as the Vulgate uses it of the Pharisees in Matthew and Luke.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Sidonius Apollinaris uses it too.^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval Latin it was declamation and imitation, and above all dissimulation and hypocrisy.^(MLW)^(Niermeyer 1976) Bede writes against the hypocrisy of the Pharisees.^(DMLBS) [[en|hypocrisy]] is recorded around 1200 through Old French ''ypocrisie''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of mimicry.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of the Pharisees.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1200 – English ''hypocrisy'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Imitation of speech and gestures, [[m|en|mimicry]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|Hypocrisy]], feigned piety.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hypocrita]]

+ * [[en|hypocrisy]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}