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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σοφίζω (sophízō) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /só.pʰiz.ma/ → /ˈso.ɸiz.ma/ → /ˈso.fiz.ma/
Noun
σόφῐσμᾰ • (sóphisma) n (genitive σοφίσμᾰτος); third declension
- clever device, ingenious contrivance
- captious argument, sophism
- Synonym: σοφῐσμός (sophismós)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “σόφισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σόφισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σόφισμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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- cheat idem, page 127.
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- cunning idem, page 189.
- deceit idem, page 200.
- design idem, page 215.
- device idem, page 220.
- dodge idem, page 246.
- expedient idem, page 293.
- fallacy idem, page 304.
- finesse idem, page 321.
- guile idem, page 378.
- ingenious idem, page 440.
- invention idem, page 456.
- machinery idem, page 506.
- manœuvre idem, page 513.
- pleading idem, page 619.
- plot idem, page 621.
- quibble idem, page 665.
- resource idem, page 703.
- scheme idem, page 739.
- shift idem, page 765.
- snare idem, page 788.
- sophism idem, page 794.
- stratagem idem, page 823.
- trap idem, page 890.
- trick idem, page 894.
- weapon idem, page 970.
- web idem, page 971.
- wile idem, page 979.