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Noun

philosophia ‎(plural philosophias)

1. philosophy

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία ‎(philosophía, “philosophy”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰi.loˈso.pʰi.a/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fi.loˈso.fi.a/

Noun

philosophia f ‎(genitive philosophiae); first declension

1. philosophy

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• French: philosophie
• German: Philosophie

Related terms

• philosophē
• philosophor
• philosophus

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “philosophia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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