Socrates

• Sokrates

From Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs). Doublet of Sokratis.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒkɹətiːz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑkɹətiz/

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• Hyphenation: Soc‧ra‧tes

Socrates

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, known after a Greek philosopher.

• Socratic
• Socratic method
• Socratic irony

• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Pythagoras

• actoress, coarsest, coasters

Socrates m

1. Socrates

Socrates m (proper noun, strong, genitive Socrates' or Socratis or (with an article) Socrates)

1. Archaic spelling of Sokrates (“Socrates”).

• Formerly also declined like Latin Socrates, which see.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrátēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.kra.teːs/, [ˈs̠oːkrät̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.kra.tes/, [ˈsɔːkrät̪es]

Sōcratēs m sg (genitive Sōcratis or Sōcratī); third declension

1. 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.

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• There are also rare genitives Sōcratūs (Late Latin) and Sōcrateos (New Latin).

• “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)

• Socrates on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la