Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸilósoɸos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /filósofos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /filósofos/

Adjective

φιλόσοφος • ‎(philósophos) m, f ‎(neuter φιλόσοφον); second declension

1. (substantive) lover of knowledge/wisdom
2. (substantive) educated, learned person
3. (substantive) professor
4. (substantive) philosopher
5. scientific, philosophic

Inflection

Related terms

• φιλοσοφία ‎(philosophía)

Descendants

• Arabic: فَيْلَسُوف ‎(faylasūf)
• Aramaic: פילוסופא / ܦܝܠܘܣܘܦܐ ‎(pīlōsōp̄ā)
  • Old Armenian: փիլիսոփայ ‎(pʿilisopʿay)
• Coptic: ⲫⲓⲗⲟⲥⲟⲫⲟⲥ ‎(philosophos)
• Greek: φιλόσοφος ‎(filósofos)
• Latin: philosophus
• Middle Persian: pylʾswkpʾy ‎(fīlāsōfā)
• Old Armenian: փիլիսոփոս ‎(pʿilisopʿos)

References

• φιλόσοφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φιλόσοφος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φιλόσοφος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G5386”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • learned idem, page 483.
  • philosopher idem, page 610.
  • philosophic idem, page 610.
  • scholarly idem, page 739.
  • scientific idem, page 739.
  • speculative idem, page 800.
  • speculator idem, page 800.
  • thinker idem, page 866.
  • wisdom idem, page 982.

Greek

Noun

φιλόσοφος • ‎(filósofos) m, f ‎(plural φιλόσοφοι)

1. philosopher (person devoted to studying philosophy)

Declension

Related terms

• φιλοσοφία ‎(filosofía, “philosophy”)