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σοφιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σοφιστής σοφιστοῦ

Structure: σοφιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: sofi/zomai

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

  • καίτοι τί δεῖ καινὴν ἐπὶ σὲ κατηγορίαν ζητεῖν μετὰ τὴν θαυμαστὴν τραγῳδίαν λέγουσαν μισῶ σοφιστήν, ὅστισ οὐχ αὑτῷ σοφόσ; (Lucian, Apologia 13:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ οἱ μάταιοι καὶ βοῶσι καὶ μεταστειλάμενοί τινα θρήνων σοφιστὴν πολλὰσ συνειλοχότα παλαιὰσ συμφορὰσ τούτῳ συναγωνιστῇ καὶ χορηγῷ τῆσ ἀνοίασ καταχρῶνται, ὅπη ἂν ἐκεῖνοσ ἐξάρχῃ πρὸσ τὸ μέλοσ ἐπαιάζοντεσ. (Lucian, (no name) 18:3)
  • ἔπειτα δὲ ὁ νομοθέτησ ὁ πρῶτοσ ἔπεισεν αὐτοὺσ ὡσ ἀδελφοὶ πάντεσ εἰε͂ν ἀλλήλων, ἐπειδὰν ἅπαξ παραβάντεσ θεοὺσ μὲν τοὺσ Ἑλληνικοὺσ ἀπαρνήσωνται, τὸν δὲ ἀνεσκολοπισμένον ἐκεῖνον σοφιστὴν αὐτὸν ^ προσκυνῶσιν καὶ κατὰ τοὺσ ἐκείνου νόμουσ βιῶσιν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:22)
  • ῥητόρων δὲ Γοργίασ, ὅν τινεσ σοφιστὴν καλοῦσιν, ἔτη ̣̔ (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 23:1)
  • σοφιστὴν δ’ ἄλλον οὐκ ἐπάξομαι. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. One who is wise

  2. teacher

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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