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hypochondriasis (n.)[hypochondriasis 词源字典]: 1766, from hypochondria + an unusual use of -osis.[hypochondriasis etymology, hypochondriasis origin, 英语词源]
hypocrisy (n.): c. 1200, ipocrisie, from Old French ypocrisie, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Greek hypokrisis "acting on the stage, pretense," from hypokrinesthai "play a part, pretend," also "answer," from hypo- "under" (see sub-) + middle voice of krinein "to sift, decide" (see crisis). The sense evolution in Attic Greek is from "separate gradually" to "answer" to "answer a fellow actor on stage" to "play a part." The h- was restored in English 16c.
Hypocrisy is the art of affecting qualities for the purpose of pretending to an undeserved virtue. Because individuals and institutions and societies most often live down to the suspicions about them, hypocrisy and its accompanying equivocations underpin the conduct of life. Imagine how frightful truth unvarnished would be. [Benjamin F. Martin, "France in 1938," 2005]
hypocrite (n.): c. 1200, ypocrite, from Old French ypocrite (12c., Modern French hypocrite), from Church Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokrites "stage actor, pretender, dissembler," from hypokrinesthai (see hypocrisy).
hypocritic (adj.): 1530s, from Greek hypokritikos âacting a part, pretendingâ (see hypocrisy).
hypocritical (adj.): 1540s (implied in hypocritically), from hypocritic, which was used in the same sense, + -al (1). Middle English used simple hypocrite as the adjective (c. 1400) as well as the noun.
hypodermic (adj.): 1830, from hypo- "under" + derma "skin" + -ic.
hypoglycemia (n.): 1893, from Latinized form of Greek elements hypo- "under" (see hypo-) + glykys "sweet" (see glucose) + haima "blood" (see -emia).
hypomania (n.): 1843 (as a clinical word from 1882, from German hypomanie); see hypo- + mania. Related: Hypomaniac; hypomanic.
hypotenuse (n.): 1570s, from Late Latin hypotenusa, from Greek hypoteinousa "stretching under" (the right angle), fem. present participle of hypoteinein, from hypo- "under" (see sub-) + teinein "to stretch" (see tenet). Formerly often erroneously hypothenuse.
hypothalamus (n.): 1896, coined 1893 in German from Greek hypo- "under" (see sub-) + thalamus "part of the brain where a nerve emerges."
hypothecate (v.): 1680s, from hypothecat-, past participle stem of Medieval Latin hypothecare, from Late Latin hypotheca, from Greek hypotheke "a deposit, pledge, mortgage," from hypo- "down" + tithenai "to put, place" (see theme). Related: Hypothecated; hypothecating; hypothecation.
hypothermia (n.): 1877, Modern Latin, from hypo- "under" (see hypo-) + Greek therme "heat" (see thermal) + abstract noun ending -ia.
hypotheses (n.): plural of hypothesis.
hypothesis (n.): 1590s, from Middle French hypothese and directly from Late Latin hypothesis, from Greek hypothesis "base, basis of an argument, supposition," literally "a placing under," from hypo- "under" (see sub-) + thesis "a placing, proposition" (see thesis). A term in logic; narrower scientific sense is from 1640s.
hypothesise (v.): chiefly British English spelling of hypothesize; for suffix, see -ize. Related: Hypothesised; hypothesising.
hypothesize (v.): 1738, from hypothesis + -ize. Related: Hypothesized; hypothesizing.
hypothetical (adj.): 1580s, from Greek hypothetikos "pertaining to a hypothesis," from hypothesis (see hypothesis). Related: Hypothetically; hypothetic.
hypotonia (n.): 1876, medical Latin, from hypo- + Greek tonos "tone" (see tenet) + abstract noun ending -ia.
hypotonic (adj.): 1873, from hypo- + tonic.
hypoxia (n.): 1941, from hypo- + oxygen + abstract noun ending -ia. Related: Hypoxic.