On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Hypatia. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as astronomer or stargazer and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Hypatia in a sentence
Hypatia meaning
- A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek].
- Hypatia of Alexandria (born c. AD 350–370; died 415), an Ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, and head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria.
Synonyms of Hypatia
Using Hypatia
- The main meaning on this page is: A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]. | Hypatia of Alexandria (born c. AD 350–370; died 415), an Ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, and head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria.
- Useful related words include: astronomer, uranologist, stargazer, philosopher.
- In the example corpus, hypatia often appears in combinations such as: of hypatia, hypatia is, that hypatia.
Context around Hypatia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hypatia
- In this selection, "hypatia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, incorporating, play, named, aka, performed and citation stand out and add context to how "hypatia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include character named hypatia who lives and concludes that hypatia corrected not. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hypatia" sits close to words such as aboriginals, abstractly and accidentals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hypatia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Following the death of Hypatia, Bishop Cyril was named "the new Theophilus". (12 words)
John's description of Hypatia's death also differs from that of Socrates. (13 words)
On the contrary, the grisly murder of Hypatia is actually sanitized in the film. (14 words)
Cameron, who analyzed Theon's titles for other books of Almagest and for other scholarly texts of late antiquity, concludes that Hypatia corrected not her father's commentary but the text of Almagest itself. (34 words)
Moreover, the bishop claimed that Orestes himself persuaded others to leave the Church in favor of Hypatia's philosophical teachings and went as far as to host such "unbelievers" at his house. (32 words)
Shortly thereafter, a group of Christians, under Peter the magistrate, went looking for Hypatia, the "pagan woman who had beguiled the people of the city and the prefect through her enchantments". (31 words)
How did you come up with incorporating Hypatia, aka the titular “Patty,” into this episode as the one that opens Eleanor and Chidi’s eyes to the problems with paradise? (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
How did you come up with incorporating Hypatia, aka the titular “Patty,” into this episode as the one that opens Eleanor and Chidi’s eyes to the problems with paradise?
On the contrary, the grisly murder of Hypatia is actually sanitized in the film.
And the flour dusting the cracks of the fallen cake represent the ‘secondary materials’ we found in the fractures in Hypatia, which are from Earth,” he said in a statement.
Here: The play Hypatia, performed at the Haymarket Theatre in January 1893, based on the novel by Charles Kingsley.
A central character in Iain Pears 's The Dream of Scipio is a woman philosopher clearly modeled on (though not identical with) Hypatia. citation.
Cameron, who analyzed Theon's titles for other books of Almagest and for other scholarly texts of late antiquity, concludes that Hypatia corrected not her father's commentary but the text of Almagest itself.
Following the death of Hypatia, Bishop Cyril was named "the new Theophilus".
Hypatia is the name of a shipmind (ship computer) in The Boy Who Would Live Forever, a novel in Frederik Pohl 's Heechee series.
John's description of Hypatia's death also differs from that of Socrates.
Moreover, the bishop claimed that Orestes himself persuaded others to leave the Church in favor of Hypatia's philosophical teachings and went as far as to host such "unbelievers" at his house.
Neoplatonist historian Damascius (c. 458 – c. 538) was "anxious to exploit the scandal of Hypatia's death", and attributed responsibility for her murder to Bishop Cyril and his Christian followers.
News of Hypatia's murder provoked great public denouncement, not only against Cyril but against the whole Alexandrian Christian community.
Rinne Groff 's 2000 play The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem features a character named Hypatia who lives silently, in fear that she will suffer the fate of her namesake.
Scholasticus then introduces Hypatia, the female philosopher of Alexandria and the woman who became a target of the Christian anger that was inflamed during the feud.
Scholasticus writes that Hypatia ultimately fell "victim to the political jealousy which at the time prevailed".
See in particular p. 275. The last two centuries have seen Hypatia's name honored in the sciences, especially astronomy.
Several Christians thought that Hypatia's influence had caused Orestes to reject all reconciliatory offerings by Cyril.
Shortly thereafter, a group of Christians, under Peter the magistrate, went looking for Hypatia, the "pagan woman who had beguiled the people of the city and the prefect through her enchantments".
Socrates Scholasticus was interpreted as saying that, while she was still alive, Hypatia's flesh was torn off ὀστράκοις, which literally means "with or by oyster shells, potsherds or roof tiles".
The lunar crater Hypatia was named for her, in addition to craters named for her father Theon and for Cyril.
Common combinations with hypatia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of hypatia 3×
- hypatia is 2×
- that hypatia 2×
- hypatia the 2×