Gorgias
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɔɹdʒi.əs/
Proper noun
Gorgias
- Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician.
Further reading
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γοργίας (Gorgías).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡor.ɡi.aːs/, [ˈɡɔr.ɡi.aːs]
Proper noun
Gorgiās m (genitive Gorgiae); first declension
- Greek sophist, philosopher and rhetorician, born in Leontini
Declension
First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ās.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Gorgiās |
| genitive | Gorgiae |
| dative | Gorgiae |
| accusative | Gorgiān |
| ablative | Gorgiā |
| vocative | Gorgiā |
Descendants
- Italian: Gorgia
References
- Gorgias in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Gorgias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Gorgias in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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