different between philosophy vs philosophe

English

Alternative forms

• philosophie (obsolete)
• phylosophie (obsolete)
• phylosophy (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Middle English philosophie, Old French philosophie, and their source, Latin philosophia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (philosophía), from ????? (phílos, “loving”) + ????? (sophía, “wisdom”). Synchronically, philo- +? -sophy. Displaced native Old English ?þwitegung.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??l?s?fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??l?s?fi/

Noun

philosophy (countable and uncountable, plural philosophies)

1. (uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
2. (uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

3. (countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
4. (countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.

5. (countable) A general principle (usually moral).
6. (archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
7. A calm and thoughtful demeanor; calmness of temper.
8. (printing, dated) Synonym of small pica (especially in French printing).
   • 2010, Thomas Wharton, Salamander, Emblem Editions (?ISBN)

     Although I prefer small pica. Or as its^[sic] sometimes known, philosophy.

     – Small pica, or philosophy, she said. It sounds like the title of a novel. With a girl heroine.

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:philosophy

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

philosophy (third-person singular simple present philosophies, present participle philosophying, simple past and past participle philosophied)

1. (now rare) To philosophize.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of philosophical isms
• ideology

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “philosophy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “philosophy” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Further reading

• "philosophy" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 235.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French philosophe.

Noun

philosophe (plural philosophes)

1. Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
2. (derogatory) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.l?.z?f/

Noun

philosophe m or f (plural philosophes)

1. philosopher

Derived terms

• philosophard
• philosopharde
• philosophâtre

Related terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: filozòf
• ? Romanian: filozof
• ? Turkish: filozof

Further reading

• “philosophe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

philosoph? (comparative philosophius, superlative philosophissim?)

1. philosophically

Etymology 2

Noun

philosophe

1. vocative singular of philosophus

Etymology 3

Adjective

philosophe

1. masculine vocative singular of philosophus

References

• philosophe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• philosophe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• philosophe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle French

Noun

philosophe m (plural philosophes)

1. philosopher

Related terms

• philosophie