σοφία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σοφίη ‎(sophíē) (Ionic)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA: /so.pʰí.aː/ → /so.ˈɸi.a/ → /so.ˈfi.a/

• 5th BC Attic: IPA: /so.pʰí.aː/ ambiguous vowel ί at 4
• 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /so.ˈpʰi.a/
• 4th AD Koine: IPA: /so.ˈɸi.a/
• 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /so.ˈfi.a/
• 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /so.ˈfi.a/

Noun

σοφίᾱ • ‎(sophíā) f ‎(genitive σοφίας); first declension

1. skill or cleverness in carpentry, music, or other crafts
2. skill related to everyday life: sound judgment, prudence
3. knowledge of a higher kind: learning, wisdom

Inflection

First declension of σοφῐ́ᾱ, σοφῐ́ᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σοφῐ́ᾱ	τὼ σοφῐ́ᾱ	αἱ σοφῐ́αι
Genitive	τῆς σοφῐ́ᾱς	τοῖν σοφῐ́αιν	τῶν σοφῐῶν
Dative	τῇ σοφῐ́ᾳ	τοῖν σοφῐ́αιν	ταῖς σοφῐ́αις
Accusative	τὴν σοφῐ́ᾱν	τὼ σοφῐ́ᾱ	τὰς σοφῐ́ᾱς
Vocative	σοφῐ́ᾱ	σοφῐ́ᾱ	σοφῐ́αι
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Derived terms

Terms derived from σοφία

• δοξοσοφία ‎(doxosophía)
• Σοφία Σειράχ ‎(Sophía Seirákh)

• Σοφία Σολομῶντος ‎(Sophía Solomôntos)

• φιλοσοφία ‎(philosophía)

Related terms

• σοφός ‎(sophós)

Descendants

• philosophy
• sophistication
• sophistry
• Sophia

References

• σοφία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σοφία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G4678”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adroitness idem, page 13.
  • art idem, page 42.
  • astuteness idem, page 48.
  • cleverness idem, page 137.
  • depth idem, page 213.
  • enlightenment idem, page 275.
  • erudition idem, page 281.
  • genius idem, page 357.
  • intelligence idem, page 448.
  • learning idem, page 483.
  • part idem, page 593.
  • philosophy idem, page 610.
  • profundity idem, page 653.
  • shrewdness idem, page 771.
  • skill idem, page 780.
  • wisdom idem, page 982.
  • wit idem, page 983.

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Greek

Noun

σοφία • ‎(sofía) f ‎(plural σοφίες)

1. wisdom
2. (plural, ironic): denoting a speaker's statements as anything but smart, important, etc.

Declension

declension of σοφία

	singular	plural
nominative	σοφία	σοφίες
genitive	σοφίας	—
accusative	σοφία	σοφίες
vocative	σοφία	σοφίες