philosophia

Interlingua

Noun

philosophia (plural philosophias)

1. philosophy

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía, “love of wisdom”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰi.loˈso.pʰi.a/, [pʰɪɫ̪ɔˈs̠ɔpʰiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fi.loˈso.fi.a/, [filoˈs̬ɔːfiä]

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Noun

philosophia f (genitive philosophiae); first declension

1. philosophy

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	philosophia	philosophiae
Genitive	philosophiae	philosophiārum
Dative	philosophiae	philosophiīs
Accusative	philosophiam	philosophiās
Ablative	philosophiā	philosophiīs
Vocative	philosophia	philosophiae

Related terms

• philosophē
• philosophor
• philosophus

Descendants

• → French: philosophie
• → German: Philosophie
• → Italian: filosofia
• → Sicilian: filusufìa
• → Romanian: filozofie
• → Spanish: filosofía
• → Portuguese: filosofia

References

• “philosophia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “philosophia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• philosophia 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)
• philosophia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a philosopher, physician by profession: philosophiam, medicinam profiteri
    
  • to devote oneself to philosophy: se conferre ad philosophiam, ad philosophiae or sapientiae studium (Fam. 4. 3. 4)
    
  • to apply oneself to the study of philosophy: animum appellere or se applicare ad philosophiam
    
  • to be enamoured of philosophy: philosophiae (sapientiae) studio teneri (Acad. 1. 2. 4)
    
  • to take refuge in philosophy: in portum philosophiae confugere
    
  • to be driven into the arms of philosophy: in sinum philosophiae compelli
    
  • philosophy is neglected, at low ebb: philosophia (neglecta) iacet (vid. sect. VII. 1, note iacēre...)
    
  • to write expositions of philosophy in Latin: philosophiam latinis litteris illustrare (Acad. 1. 1. 3)
    
  • Cicero's philosophical writings: Ciceronis de philosophia libri
    
  • philosophical subjects: quae in philosophia tractantur
    
  • physics; natural philosophy: physica (-orum) (Or. 34. 119); philosophia naturalis
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, quae est de vita et moribus (Acad. 1. 5. 19)
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • theoretical, speculative philosophy: philosophia, quae in rerum contemplatione versatur, or quae artis praeceptis continetur
    
  • practical philosophy: philosophia, quae in actione versatur
    
  • the whole domain of philosophy: omnes philosophiae loci
    
• “philosophia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers