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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

  • ἐγκειμένου δὲ τοῦ σοφιστοῦ καὶ ἐρωτῶντοσ, τίνα δὲ καὶ ἐφόδια ἔχων, ὦ Δημῶναξ,. (Lucian, (no name) 12:4)
  • τοῦ δὲ Σιδωνίου ποτὲ σοφιστοῦ Ἀθήνησιν εὐδοκιμοῦντοσ καὶ λέγοντοσ ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ ἔπαινόν τινα τοιοῦτον, ὅτι πάσησ φιλοσοφίασ πεπείραται ‐ οὐ χεῖρον δὲ αὐτὰ εἰπεῖν ἃ ἔλεγεν Εἂν Ἀριστοτέλησ με καλῇ ἐπὶ τὸ Λύκειον, ἕψομαι· (Lucian, (no name) 14:1)
  • ’ μάλιστα δὲ θαυμάζειν ἔφη τὴν τοῦ σοφιστοῦ Σατύρου μητέρα, ὅτι ὃν οὐδεμία πόλισ ἐνεγκεῖν οἱά τε δέκα ἡμέρασ, ἐκείνη δέκα μῆνασ ἤνεγκε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 43 2:3)
  • διαβόητοι δὲ ἐπὶ σφαιρικῇ Δημοτέλησ ὁ Θεοκρίτου τοῦ Χίου σοφιστοῦ ἀδελφὸσ καί τισ Χαιρεφάνησ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 25 1:2)
  • ὅτι δ’ αὕτη λόγῳ δυσθεώρητοσ αἰσθήσει δ’ ἄληπτόσ ἐστι, μὴ παρὰ Σωκράτουσ σοφιστοῦ καὶ ἀλαζόνοσ ἀνδρόσ, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τῶν σοφῶν τούτων λάβωμεν, οἳ μέχρι τῶν περὶ σάρκα τῆσ ψυχῆσ δυνάμεων, αἷσ θερμότητα καὶ μαλακότητα καὶ τόνον παρέχει τῷ σώματι, τὴν οὐσίαν συμπηγνύντεσ αὐτῆσ ἔκ τινοσ θερμοῦ καὶ πνευματικοῦ καὶ ἀερώδουσ οὐκ ἐξικνοῦνται πρὸσ τὸ κυριώτατον ἀλλ’ ἀπαγορεύουσι. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 207)

Synonyms

  1. One who is wise

  2. teacher

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