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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs). Doublet of Sokratis.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Socrates
- 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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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrắtēs).
Proper noun
Socrates m
- Socrates
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German
Proper noun
Socrates m (proper noun, strong, genitive Socrates' or Socratis or (with an article) Socrates)
- archaic spelling of Sokrates (“Socrates”)
Usage notes
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrắtēs).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sōcratēs m sg (genitive Sōcratis or Sōcratī); third declension
- 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.
References
- “Sōcrătes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "Socrates", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Sōcrătēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,452/1.
- “Sōcratēs” on page 1,780/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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