English
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Confucius
- Western name of Kong Qiu (孔丘), an influential Chinese philosopher who lived 551 BCE – 479 BCE.
- (very rare) A male given name.
Derived terms
See also
Translations
Chinese philosopher
- Afrikaans: Konfusius
- Amharic: ኮንግ-ፉጸ (kong-fuṣä)
- Arabic: كُونْفُوشِيُوس m (kūnfūšiyūs)
- Aragonese: Confucio
- Aramaic: ܩܘܢܦܘܫܝܘܣ
- Armenian: Կոնֆուցիոս (Konfucʿios)
- Asturian: Confucio
- Aymara: Confucius
- Bambara: Confucius
- Bashkir: Конфуций (Konfutsiy)
- Basque: Konfuzio
- Bavarian: Konfuzius
- Belarusian: Канфу́цый m (Kanfúcyj)
- Bengali: কনফুসিয়াস (kônphusiyas)
- Bikol Central: Confucius
- Bislama: Confucius
- Breton: Konfusius
- Bulgarian: Конфу́ций m (Konfúcij)
- Burmese: ကွန်ဖြူးရှပ် (kwanhpru:hrap)
- Catalan: Confuci
- Cebuano: Confucio
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 孔子 (hung2 zi2), 孔夫子 (hung2 fu1 zi2), 孔丘 (hung2 jau1)
- Hakka: 孔子 (Khúng-chṳ́)
- Mandarin: 孔子 (zh) (Kǒngzǐ), 孔夫子 (zh) (Kǒng Fūzǐ), 孔丘 (zh) (Kǒng Qiū)
- Min Nan: 孔子 (Khóng-chú), 孔子公 (zh-min-nan) (Khóng-chú-kong)
- Corsican: Confuciu
- Czech: Konfucius m
- Danish: Konfutse, Konfucius
- Dhivehi: ކޮންފޫޝާ (konfūšā)
- Esperanto: Konfuceo
- Faroese: Konfusius
- Fiji Hindi: Confucius
- Finnish: Kungfutse, Konfutse
- French: Confucius (fr) m
- Galician: Confucio
- Georgian: კონფუცი (ḳonpuci)
- German: Konfuzius m
- Greek: Κομφούκιος (el) m (Komfoúkios)
- Greenlandic: Konfusiusi
- Guaraní: Konfúsio
- Gujarati: કન્ફ્યુશિયસ (kanphyuśiyas)
- Hausa: Confucius
- Hebrew: קונפוציוס m
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- Hindi: कन्फ्यूशियस m (kanphyūśiyas)
- Hungarian: Konfuciusz (hu)
- Icelandic: Konfúsíus
- Ido: Kong Zi
- Igbo: Konfúkius
- Interlingua: Confucio
- Interlingue: Konfuzius
- Irish: Confúicias
- Italian: Confucio m
- Japanese: 孔子 (こうし, Kōshi), 孔夫子 (こうふうし, Kōfūshi)
- Kazakh: Құң-зы (Quñ-zı)
- Khmer: ខុងជឺ (kʰoŋ cɨɨ)
- Korean: 공자 (Gongja) (孔子 (ko)), 공부자 (Gongbuja) (孔夫子 (ko))
- Lao: ຂົງຈື້ (khong chư̄)
- Latin: Confucius (la)
- Lithuanian: Konfucijus
- Macedonian: Конфу́чиј m (Konfúčij)
- Ossetian: Конфуций (Konfucij)
- Pennsylvania German: Konfyuschus
- Persian: کنفوسیوس
- Polish: Konfucjusz (pl) m
- Portuguese: Confúcio m
- Russian: Конфу́ций m (Konfúcij), Ку́н-Цзы́ m (Kún-Czý)
- Scottish Gaelic: Confucius
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Конфучије m
- Roman: Konfučije m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: Konfucius
- Upper Sorbian: Konfucius
- Spanish: Confucio m
- Swedish: Konfucius
- Tamil: கன்பூசியஸ் (kaṉpūciyas)
- Thai: ขงจื๊อ (th) (kŏng-jéu)
- Tibetan: ཁུང་ཙི (khung tsi)
- Ukrainian: Конфу́цій m (Konfúcij)
- Vietnamese: Khổng Tử (孔子), Khổng Phu Tử (孔夫子)
- Welsh: Conffiwsiws
- West Frisian: Konfusius
- Yiddish: קאָנפֿוציוס (konfutsyus)
- Yoruba: Kọnfukiọsi
- Zealandic: Confucius
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Mandarin 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ) "Master Kong".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfu.ki.us/, [kõːˈfʊ.ki.ʊs]
Proper noun
Confucius m (genitive Confuciī); second declension
- Confucius
- 1687: Philippe Couplet, Confucius, Sinarum Philosophus
- CUM FU CU, ſive Confucius quem Sinenſes uti Principem Philoſophiæ ſuæ ſequuntur, ...
- 1698: Johann Jacob Hofmann, Lexicon Universale
- CONFUTIUS, dictus Socrates Sinenſis, tum quia huic σύγχρονος, tum quia morum imprimis Doctrinam excoluit.
Inflection
Second declension.
