Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σοφίη ‎(sophíē) (Ionic)

Noun

σοφίᾱ • ‎(sophíā) f ‎(genitive σοφίας); first declension

1. skill or cleverness in carpentry, music, or other crafts
2. skill related to everyday life: sound judgment, prudence
3. knowledge of a higher kind: learning, wisdom

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• σοφός ‎(sophós)

Descendants

• philosophy
• sophistication
• sophistry
• Sophia

References

• 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.

Greek

Noun

σοφία • ‎(sofía) f ‎(plural σοφίες)

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

Declension