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Socrates

Socrates

See also: Sócrates and Sòcrates

English

Proper noun

Socrates

A Classical Greek philosopher.
A male given name of mostly historical use.

Translations

Greek philosopher

Arabic: سُقْرَاط m ‎(suqrāṭ), سُوكْرَاتِس m ‎(sukrātis)
Armenian: Սոկրատես ‎(Sokrates)
Bulgarian: Сократ m ‎(Sokrát)
Catalan: Sòcrates
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蘇格拉底 (zh), 苏格拉底 (zh) ‎(Sūgélādǐ)
Czech: Sokrates m, Sókratés m
Danish: Sokrates
Dutch: Socrates m
Esperanto: Sokrato
Estonian: Sokrates
Finnish: Sokrates (fi)
French: Socrate (fr) m

Old French: Socrate

Middle French: Socrates
German: Sokrates m
Greek: Σωκράτης (el) m ‎(Sokrátis)
Ancient Greek: Σωκράτης ‎(Sōkrátēs)
Hebrew: סוקראטס m ‎(Sokrates)

Hungarian: Szókratész (hu)
Icelandic: Sókrates m
Italian: Socrate
Japanese: ソクラテス ‎(Sokuratesu)
Korean: 소크라테스 ‎(Sokiratisu)
Latin: Sōcratēs
Lithuanian: Sokratas
Malay: Socrates
Maltese: Sokrate
Norwegian: Sokrates
Persian: سوکراتس m ‎(sukraatis), سقراط (fa) m ‎(suqrāţ)
Polish: Sokrates (pl)
Portuguese: Sócrates
Russian: Сокра́т (ru) m ‎(Sokrát)
Serbo-Croatian: Сократ/Sokrat
Slovak: Sokrates m
Slovene: Sókrat (sl) m
Spanish: Sócrates (es) m
Swedish: Sokrates
Turkish: Sokrates (tr)

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

coarsest, coasters

Dutch

Proper noun

Socrates ?

Socrates

Latin

Proper noun

Sōcratēs

Socrates

References

Socrates in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Socrates”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.