sophistes

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek σοφῐστής (sophistḗs).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sophistēs m (genitive sophistae); first declension

  1. a sophist

Declension

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First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

singular plural
nominative sophistēs sophistae
genitive sophistae sophistārum
dative sophistae sophistīs
accusative sophistēn sophistās
ablative sophistē sophistīs
vocative sophistē sophistae
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Descendants

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  • English: sophist
  • French: sophiste

References

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  • sŏphistes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • SOPHISTÆ in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sophistēs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sŏphistēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,458/2.
  • sophistēs” on page 1,792 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sophista”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 975/2
  • sophista in Ramminger, Johann (2024 November 23 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016