philosophia
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
philosophia (plural philosophias)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía, “love of wisdom”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pʰi.loˈso.pʰi.a/, [pʰɪɫ̪ɔˈs̠ɔpʰiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fi.loˈso.fi.a/, [filoˈs̬ɔːfiä]
Noun edit
philosophia f (genitive philosophiae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | philosophia | philosophiae |
Genitive | philosophiae | philosophiārum |
Dative | philosophiae | philosophiīs |
Accusative | philosophiam | philosophiās |
Ablative | philosophiā | philosophiīs |
Vocative | philosophia | philosophiae |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: filozofi
- → Aragonese: filosofía
- → Aromanian: filuzufii, filuzufie, filusufii, filusufie
- → Asturian: filosofía
- → French: philosophie
- → Galician: filosofía
- → German: Philosophie
- → Italian: filosofia
- → Portuguese: filosofia
- → Romanian: filozofie
- → Sicilian: filusufìa
- → Spanish: filosofía
References edit
- “philosophia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “philosophia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- philosophia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- philosophia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a philosopher, physician by profession: philosophiam, medicinam profiteri
- to devote oneself to philosophy: se conferre ad philosophiam, ad philosophiae or sapientiae studium (Fam. 4. 3. 4)
- to apply oneself to the study of philosophy: animum appellere or se applicare ad philosophiam
- to be enamoured of philosophy: philosophiae (sapientiae) studio teneri (Acad. 1. 2. 4)
- to take refuge in philosophy: in portum philosophiae confugere
- to be driven into the arms of philosophy: in sinum philosophiae compelli
- philosophy is neglected, at low ebb: philosophia (neglecta) iacet (vid. sect. VII. 1, note iacēre...)
- to write expositions of philosophy in Latin: philosophiam latinis litteris illustrare (Acad. 1. 1. 3)
- Cicero's philosophical writings: Ciceronis de philosophia libri
- philosophical subjects: quae in philosophia tractantur
- physics; natural philosophy: physica (-orum) (Or. 34. 119); philosophia naturalis
- moral science; ethics: philosophia, quae est de vita et moribus (Acad. 1. 5. 19)
- moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
- theoretical, speculative philosophy: philosophia, quae in rerum contemplatione versatur, or quae artis praeceptis continetur
- practical philosophy: philosophia, quae in actione versatur
- the whole domain of philosophy: omnes philosophiae loci
- to be a philosopher, physician by profession: philosophiam, medicinam profiteri
- “philosophia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers