σοφία

Ancient Greek

From σοφός (sophós, “skilled in handcrafts; clever”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

σοφῐ́ᾱ • (sophíā) f (genitive σοφῐ́ᾱς); first declension

First declension of ἡ σοφῐ́ᾱ; τῆς σοφῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σοφῐ́ᾱ hē sophíā	τὼ σοφῐ́ᾱ tṑ sophíā	αἱ σοφῐ́αι hai sophíai
Genitive	τῆς σοφῐ́ᾱς tês sophíās	τοῖν σοφῐ́αιν toîn sophíain	τῶν σοφῐῶν tôn sophiôn
Dative	τῇ σοφῐ́ᾳ têi sophíāi	τοῖν σοφῐ́αιν toîn sophíain	ταῖς σοφῐ́αις taîs sophíais
Accusative	τὴν σοφῐ́ᾱν tḕn sophíān	τὼ σοφῐ́ᾱ tṑ sophíā	τᾱ̀ς σοφῐ́ᾱς tā̀s sophíās
Vocative	σοφῐ́ᾱ sophíā	σοφῐ́ᾱ sophíā	σοφῐ́αι sophíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Terms derived from σοφία (sophía)

σοφία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σοφία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G4678 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- adroitness idem, page 13.
- art idem, page 42.
- astuteness idem, page 48.
- cleverness idem, page 137.
- depth idem, page 213.
- enlightenment idem, page 275.
- erudition idem, page 281.
- genius idem, page 357.
- intelligence idem, page 448.
- learning idem, page 483.
- part idem, page 593.
- philosophy idem, page 610.
- profundity idem, page 653.
- shrewdness idem, page 771.
- skill idem, page 780.
- wisdom idem, page 982.
- wit idem, page 983.

Inherited from Ancient Greek σοφῐ́ᾱ (sophíā).

σοφία • (sofía) f (plural σοφίες)

wisdom
(plural, ironic): denoting a speaker's statements as anything but smart, important, etc.

declension of σοφία