ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΕ, φιλοσοφε
PHILOSOPHE, philosophe
Sounds Like: fee-LO-so-feh
Translations: O philosopher, philosopher
From the root: ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is the vocative singular form of the noun 'philosopher'. It is a compound word derived from 'φίλος' (philos), meaning 'loving' or 'dear', and 'σοφία' (sophia), meaning 'wisdom'. Therefore, a philosopher is literally one who loves wisdom. It is used to directly address someone as a philosopher.
Inflection: Vocative, Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5386 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 1:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΦΙΛΙΣΟΦΩ — philosopher, a philosopher, philosophical, (to) a philosopher, (to) the philosopher, (to) philosophical
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΙ — philosophers
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΙΣ — to philosophers, for philosophers
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΝ — philosophical, a philosopher, a scholar
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ — philosopher, a philosopher
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΥ — of a philosopher, a philosopher
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΥΣ — philosophers
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΝ — of philosophers, to philosophers, philosophers, a philosopher
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΤΑΤΟ — most philosophical, most learned, most wise
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΤΑΤΟΝ — most philosophical, very philosophical, a most philosophical thing, the most philosophical
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΤΕΡΑΝ — more philosophical, a more philosophical, wiser, a wiser
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