Ancient Greek

Verb

ὑποκρίνομαι • ‎(hupokrínomai)

1. to answer
2. to interpret
3. to play a part, to be a player
4. to feign, to dissemble

Usage notes

In the sense of "answer", the usual word in Attic was ἀποκρίνομαι ‎(apokrínomai).

References

• ὑποκρίνομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑποκρίνομαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὑποκρίνομαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὑποκρίνομαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὑποκρίνομαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G5271”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979