different between sophia vs sophistry

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ????? (sophí?, “high knowledge”: “learning”, “wisdom”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?so.p?i.a/, [?s??p?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?so.fi.a/, [?s??fi?]

Noun

sophia f (genitive sophiae); first declension

1. wisdom (often personified)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Middle English: sophie
  • English: sophy

References

• sophia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sophia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sophia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sophia in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• sophia in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

English

Etymology

From Old French sophistrie, from Latin sophista, from Ancient Greek ???????? (sophist?s, “wise man”), from ?????? (sophíz?, “I am wise”), from ????? (sophós, “wise”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?.f?.st?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?.f?.st?i/

Noun

sophistry (countable and uncountable, plural sophistries)

1. (uncountable) Cunning, sometimes manifested as trickery.
   • "Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money." 1844 - Søren Kierkegaard in Philosophical Fragments (Philosophiske Smuler eller En Smule Philosophi)
2. (uncountable) The art of using deceptive speech or writing.
3. (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.

Related terms

• Sophia
• sophism
• sophist
• sophistication

Translations

See also

• demagogy
• rhetoric