Old French

Noun

ypocrisie f ‎(oblique plural ypocrisies, nominative singular ypocrisie, nominative plural ypocrisies)

1. hypocrisy
   • circa 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
     senefie la vainne gloire
     qui vint de fause ypocrisie.
     Et la destre, que senefie ?
     Charité, qui de sa bone oevre
     pas ne se vante, ençois la coevre[.]

     They left, according to history
     Represents vainglory
     Which comes from false hypocrisy
     And the right, what does that represent?
     Charity, which does not
     boast about its good work

Related terms

• ypocrite noun

Descendants

• English: hypocrisy (borrowed)
• French: hypocrisie
• Romanian: ipocrizie (borrowed)