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σοφιστής?

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: sophistēs

Principal Part: σοφιστής σοφιστοῦ

Structure: σοφιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. A master of one's craft
  2. One who is wise, prudent, a philosopher
  3. teacher, tutor
  4. (slang)(pejorative) One who makes a profit off of false wisdom: cheat, swindler

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἶτα φοβηθεὶς μὴ συντριβείην ἐν τοσαύτῃ τύρβῃ, ἐπεὶ καὶ πολλοὺς τοῦτο πάσχοντας ἑώρων, ἀπῆλθον μακρὰ χαίρειν φράσας θανατιῶντι σοφιστῇ τὸν ἐπιτάφιον ἑαυτοῦ πρὸ τελευτῆς διεξιόντι. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 12:4)
  • περῶσα γὰρ δὴ ποταμίους διὰ ῥοὰς λέκτροις ἐπλάθην Στρυμόνος φυταλμίοις, ὅτ ἤλθομεν γῆς χρυσόβωλον ἐς λέπας Πάγγαιον ὀργάνοισιν ἐξησκημέναι Μοῦσαι μεγίστην εἰς ἔριν μελῳδίας κείνῳ σοφιστῇ Θρῃκί, κἀκτυφλώσαμεν Θάμυριν, ὃς ἡμῶν πόλλ ἐδέννασεν τέχνην. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:3)
  • καὶ ταῦτα ἔπραξα βάρβαρος ὢν καὶ ἀπαίδευτος παιδείας τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς καὶ οὔτε Ὅμηρον ὥσπερ οὗτος ῥαψῳδῶν οὔτε ὑπ᾿ Ἀριστοτέλει τῷ σοφιστῇ παιδευθείς, μόνῃ δὲ τῇ φύσει ἀγαθῇ χρησάμενος. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 8:1)
  • περὶ Ἰταλικῶν οἴνων φησὶν ὁ παρὰ τούτῳ τῷ σοφιστῇ Γαληνός: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 481)
  • εἰσὶ σὲ καὶ μαντικῆς οὗτοι μοῦνοι Ἰνδῶν δαήμονες, οὐδὲ ἐπεῖται ἄλλῳ μαντεύεσθαι ὅτι μὴ σοφιστῇ ἀνδρί. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 11 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. One who is wise

  2. teacher

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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