φιλοσοφία
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- love of knowledge, pursuit of knowledge
- the study, investigation of a topic
- philosophy
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek φῐλόσοφος (loving knowledge), φῐ́λος (loving, dear, friend, beloved, love) + Ancient Greek σοφός (wise, skilled, clever, skilled with handcrafts, skillful, skilled in handcrafts).
Origin
Ancient Greek
σοφός
Gloss
wise, skilled, clever, skilled with handcrafts, skillful, skilled in handcrafts
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- philosophia perennis English
- philosophy English
- sophic English
- sophomania English
- theosoph English
- theosophe English
- filosofia Finnish
- philosophia Latin
- philosophicus Latin
- philosophus Latin
- sophos Latin
- sophus Latin
- theosophus Latin
- filosofia Italian
- geren Dutch, Flemish
- wijs Dutch, Flemish
- wijsgeer Dutch, Flemish
- wijsgerig Dutch, Flemish
- neurophilosophie French
- philosophie French
- théosophe French
- филосо́фия Russian
- filosofía Spanish, Castilian
- Δίφιλος Ancient Greek
- Δημόφιλος Ancient Greek
- Θεόφιλος Ancient Greek
- Πάμφιλος Ancient Greek
- Σοφοκλῆς Ancient Greek
- Χειρίσοφος Ancient Greek
- θεόσοφος Ancient Greek
- πάνσοφος Ancient Greek
- σοφία Ancient Greek
- σοφίζω Ancient Greek
- σοφός Ancient Greek
- φιλόξενος Ancient Greek
- φιλότιμος Ancient Greek
- φῐ́λος Ancient Greek
- φῐλόσοφος Ancient Greek
- Ἀντίφιλος Ancient Greek
- Ἡρόφιλος Ancient Greek
- filosofia Portuguese
- philosoph Old English
- Sophora Arabic
- فلسفة Arabic
- فَلْسَفَة Arabic
- فَلْسَفَة, فَلْسَفَات Arabic
- philosophie Old French
- filosofia Catalan, Valencian
- फ़लसफ़ा Hindi
- filozofie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- فلسفه Persian
- μεταφιλοσοφία Greek (modern)
- σοφός Greek (modern)
- φιλοσοφία Greek (modern)
- φιλοσοφικός Greek (modern)
- φιλοσοφικότητα Greek (modern)
- filsafat Indonesian
- philosophie Middle Dutch
- felsefe Turkish
- falsafah Malay
- пәлсапа Kazakh
- фәлсапа Kazakh
- фәлсафа Kazakh
- fəlsəfə Azerbaijani
- falsafa Swahili
- filosofia Occitan
- фәлсәфә Bashkir
- ⲥⲟⲫⲟⲥ Coptic
- falsafa Uzbek
- felsefe Crimean Tatar
- falsafa Hausa