σοφία
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- skill or cleverness in carpentry, music, or other crafts
- skill related to everyday life: sound judgment, prudence
- knowledge of a higher kind: learning, wisdom
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek σοφός (wise, skilled, clever, skilled with handcrafts, skillful, skilled in handcrafts).
Origin
Ancient Greek
σοφός
Gloss
wise, skilled, clever, skilled with handcrafts, skillful, skilled in handcrafts
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -sophy English
- Sophia English
- Sophie English
- sophic English
- sophomania English
- theanthroposophy English
- theosoph English
- theosophe English
- sophos Latin
- sophus Latin
- theosophus Latin
- Sophie French
- théosophe French
- Со́ня Russian
- София Russian
- Софья Russian
- Sofía Spanish, Castilian
- Σοφοκλῆς Ancient Greek
- Χειρίσοφος Ancient Greek
- θεάνθρωπος Ancient Greek
- θεόσοφος Ancient Greek
- πάνσοφος Ancient Greek
- σοφίζω Ancient Greek
- σοφός Ancient Greek
- φίλος Ancient Greek
- φιλοσοφία Ancient Greek
- Sofia Norwegian Bokmål
- Sônia Portuguese
- Sofia Norwegian Nynorsk
- Sophora Arabic
- فَلْسَفَة, فَلْسَفَات Arabic
- σοφός Greek (modern)
- Sophia Cebuano
- filsafat Indonesian
- Sofija Latvian
- София Bulgarian
- Soňa Slovak
- ⲥⲟⲫⲓⲁ Coptic
- ⲥⲟⲫⲟⲥ Coptic
- Kopaea Hawaiian