hipocresía
See also: hipocresia
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόκρισις (hupókrisis, “answer, stage acting, pretense”), from ῠ̔ποκρῑ́νομαι (hupokrī́nomai, “to reply”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under, hypo-”) + the middle voice of κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate, to judge, to decide”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithipocresía f (plural hipocresías)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “hipocresía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014