φιλόσοφος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φίλος (phílos, “beloved, loving”) + σοφός (sophós, “wise”), σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰi.ló.so.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰiˈlo.so.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸiˈlo.so.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fiˈlo.so.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fiˈlo.so.fos/
Adjective
φῐλόσοφος • (philósophos) m, f (neuter φῐλόσοφον); second declension
- (substantive) lover of knowledge/wisdom
- (substantive) educated, learned person
- (substantive) professor
- (substantive) philosopher
- scientific, philosophic
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | φῐλόσοφος philósophos |
φῐλόσοφον philósophon |
φῐλοσόφω philosóphō |
φῐλοσόφω philosóphō |
φῐλόσοφοι philósophoi |
φῐλόσοφᾰ philósopha | ||||||||
| Genitive | φῐλοσόφου philosóphou |
φῐλοσόφου philosóphou |
φῐλοσόφοιν philosóphoin |
φῐλοσόφοιν philosóphoin |
φῐλοσόφων philosóphōn |
φῐλοσόφων philosóphōn | ||||||||
| Dative | φῐλοσόφῳ philosóphōi |
φῐλοσόφῳ philosóphōi |
φῐλοσόφοιν philosóphoin |
φῐλοσόφοιν philosóphoin |
φῐλοσόφοις philosóphois |
φῐλοσόφοις philosóphois | ||||||||
| Accusative | φῐλόσοφον philósophon |
φῐλόσοφον philósophon |
φῐλοσόφω philosóphō |
φῐλοσόφω philosóphō |
φῐλοσόφους philosóphous |
φῐλόσοφᾰ philósopha | ||||||||
| Vocative | φῐλόσοφε philósophe |
φῐλόσοφον philósophon |
φῐλοσόφω philosóphō |
φῐλοσόφω philosóphō |
φῐλόσοφοι philósophoi |
φῐλόσοφᾰ philósopha | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| φῐλοσόφως philosóphōs |
φῐλοσοφώτερος philosophṓteros |
φῐλοσοφώτᾰτος philosophṓtatos | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | |||||||||||||
Derived terms
- φιλοσοφέω (philosophéō)
- φιλοσοφία (philosophía)
Descendants
- Arabic: فَيْلَسُوف (faylasūf)
- Aramaic: פילוסופא / ܦܝܠܘܣܘܦܐ (pīlōsōp̄ā)
- Old Armenian: փիլիսոփայ (pʿilisopʿay)
- Coptic: ⲫⲓⲗⲟⲥⲟⲫⲟⲥ (philosophos)
- Greek: φιλόσοφος (filósofos)
- Latin: philosophus
- Middle Persian: pylʾswkpʾy (fīlāsōfā)
- Old Armenian: փիլիսոփոս (pʿilisopʿos)
Further reading
- φιλόσοφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φιλόσοφος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φιλόσοφος 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
- G5386 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.
- learned idem, page 483.
- philosopher idem, page 610.
- philosophic idem, page 610.
- scholarly idem, page 739.
- scientific idem, page 739.
- speculative idem, page 800.
- speculator idem, page 800.
- thinker idem, page 867.
- wisdom idem, page 982.
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek φιλόσοφος (philósophos).
Noun
φιλόσοφος • (filósofos) m, f (plural φιλόσοφοι)
- philosopher (person devoted to studying philosophy)
Declension
declension of φιλόσοφος
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | φιλόσοφος • | φιλόσοφοι • | |
| genitive | φιλοσόφου • | φιλοσόφων • | |
| accusative | φιλόσοφο • | φιλοσόφους • | |
| vocative | φιλόσοφε • | φιλόσοφοι • | |
| φιλόσοφου, φιλόσοφους φιλόσοφων are found. | |||
Related terms
- φιλοσοφία (filosofía, “philosophy”)
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