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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek σοφίᾱ (sophíā, “high knowledge”: “learning”, “wisdom”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sophia f (genitive sophiae); first declension
- wisdom (often personified)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “sophia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sophia 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)
- sophia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sophia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “sophia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press