Socrates

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See also: SOCRATES, Sócrates, and Sòcrates

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs). Doublet of Sokratis.

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Socrates

  1. A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, known after a Greek philosopher.
    • 1996, John M. Cooper, “Introduction”, in Plato: Complete Works, Hackett, page xxii:
      Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrắtēs).

Proper noun

Socrates m

  1. Socrates

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Proper noun

Socrates m (proper noun, strong, genitive Socrates' or Socratis or (with an article) Socrates)

  1. archaic spelling of Sokrates (Socrates)

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrắtēs).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sōcratēs m sg (genitive Sōcratis or Sōcratī); third declension

  1. Socrates
    • 5th century, Paulinus Pellaeus, Eucharisticon Deo sub ephemeridis meae textu (ΕΥΧΑΡΙϹΤΗΤΙΚΌϹ Deo sub Ephemeridis meae Textu). In: Ausonius with an English translation by Hugh G. Evelyn White. Vol. II. With the Eucharisticus of Paulinus Pellaeus, 1921, p. 312f.
      Nec sero exacto primi mox tempore lustri
      dogmata Socratus et bellica plasmata Homeri
      erroresque legens cognoscere cogor Ulixis.
      Full early, when the days of my first lustrum were well-nigh spent, I was made to con and learn the doctrines of Socrates, Homer's warlike fantasies, and Ulysses' wanderings.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Sōcratēs
genitive Sōcratis
Sōcratī
dative Sōcratī
accusative Sōcratem
Sōcratēn
ablative Sōcrate
vocative Sōcratē
Sōcrates

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