ὑπεραττικίζω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὑπερ- (huper-) + ἀττικίζω (attikízō), equivalent to ὑπεραττῐκός (huperattĭkós, excessively Attic) + -ίζω (-ízō).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hy.pe.rat.ti.kíz.dɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)y.pe.rat.tiˈki.zo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /y.pe.rat.tiˈci.zo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /y.pe.rat.tiˈci.zo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.pe.ra.tiˈci.zo/
Verb
ὑπεραττῐκίζω • (huperattĭkízō)
- to imitate the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek to excess
- 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Vita Appoloni 1.17:
- λόγων δὲ ἰδέαν ἐπήσκησεν οὐ διθυραμβώδη καὶ φλεγμαίνουσαν ποιητικοῖς ὀνόμασιν, οὐδ᾽ αὖ κατεγλωττισμένην καὶ ὑπεραττικίζουσαν
- lógōn dè idéan epḗskēsen ou dithurambṓdē kaì phlegmaínousan poiētikoîs onómasin, oud’ aû kateglōttisménēn kaì huperattikízousan
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- λόγων δὲ ἰδέαν ἐπήσκησεν οὐ διθυραμβώδη καὶ φλεγμαίνουσαν ποιητικοῖς ὀνόμασιν, οὐδ᾽ αὖ κατεγλωττισμένην καὶ ὑπεραττικίζουσαν
- (figurative) to use excessive subtlety in philosophy
Conjugation
Present: ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζω, ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζομαι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζω | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζεις | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζει | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζετον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζετον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζομεν | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζετε | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζω | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζῃς | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζῃ | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζητον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζητον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζωμεν | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζητε | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοιμῐ | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοις | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοι | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοιτον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζοίτην | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοιμεν | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοιτε | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοιεν | |||||
| imperative | ὑπερᾰττῐ́κῐζε | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζέτω | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζετον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζέτων | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζετε | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζόντων | |||||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζομαι | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζῃ / ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζει | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζεται | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζεσθον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζεσθον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζόμεθᾰ | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζεσθε | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζονται | ||||
| subjunctive | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζωμαι | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζῃ | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζηται | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζησθον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζησθον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζώμεθᾰ | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζησθε | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζωνται | |||||
| optative | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζοίμην | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοιο | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοιτο | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοισθον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζοίσθην | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζοίμεθᾰ | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοισθε | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζοιντο | |||||
| imperative | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζου | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζέσθω | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζεσθον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζέσθων | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζεσθε | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζέσθων | |||||||
| active | middle/passive | ||||||||||||
| infinitive | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζειν | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζεσθαι | |||||||||||
| participle | m | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζων | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζόμενος | ||||||||||
| f | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζουσᾰ | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζομένη | |||||||||||
| n | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐ́ζον | ὑπερᾰττῐκῐζόμενον | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Derived terms
- ὑπεραττικισμός (huperattikismós)
Related terms
- ἀναττῐκός (anattĭkós, “alien to the Attic dialect”)
- ἀντιαττῐκιστής m (antiattĭkistḗs, “Anti-Atticist”)
- Ἀτθίς (Atthís)
- Ἀττῐικηρῶς - ἀττῐκηρῶς (attĭkērôs, “in Attic fashion”)
- Ἀττική (Attikḗ, “Attica”)
- Ἀττῐ́κισις - ἀττῐ́κισις f (attĭ́kisis, “Attic style, Atticism”)
- Ἀττικισμός (Attikismós)
- Ἀττῐκιστής - ἀττῐκιστής m (attĭkistḗs, “speaker of Attic; one who affects or collects Attic expressions”)
- Ἀττῐκιστί - ἀττῐκιστί (attĭkistí, “in the Attic dialect”)
- Ἀττῐκοπέρδιξ m (Attĭkopérdix, “Attic partridge, nickname of an actor”)
- Ἀττῐκός (Attĭkós)
- Ἀττῐκουργής - ἀττῐκουργής (attĭkourgḗs, “wrought in Attic fashion”)
- Ἀττῐκωνῐκός m (Attĭkōnĭkós, “comic alteration of Ἀττῐκός, after Λακωνικός”)
- ἐναττῐκίζω (enattĭkízō)
- ἐξαττῐκίζω (exattĭkízō)
- Συραττῐκός (Surattĭkós, “Syro-Attic”)
- ὑπαττῐκός (hupattĭkós, “somewhat Attic”)
- χρυσαττῐκός (khrusattĭkós, “golden Attic”)
- ψευδαττῐκός (pseudattĭkós, “false Attic”)
References
- “ὑπεραττικίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὑπεραττικίζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “ὑπεραττικίζω”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- ὑπεραττικίζω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011