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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θεόσοφος (theósophos, “wise in divine things”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰe.o.so.pʰí.aː/ → /θe.o.soˈɸi.a/ → /θe.o.soˈfi.a/
Noun
θεοσοφῐ́ᾱ • (theosophíā) f (genitive θεοσοφῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- Knowledge of divine things.
458 CE – 538 CE,
Damascius,
Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 350
Inflection
Further reading
- “θεοσοφία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θεοσοφία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
1850, A copious Greek-English vocabulary : compiled from the best authorities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 436:θεοσοφία, ή, knowledge of things divine.- theosophía, ḗ, knowledge of things divine.
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- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “θεοσοφία”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 578