Σοφοκλῆς
See also: Σοφοκλής
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom σοφός (sophós, “clever”) + -κλῆς (-klês, “fame”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /so.pʰo.klɛ̂ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /so.pʰoˈkle̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /so.ɸoˈklis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /so.foˈklis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /so.foˈklis/
Proper noun
editΣοφοκλῆς • (Sophoklês) m (genitive Σοφοκλέους); third declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Sophocles
- In particular, the 5th century BCE tragic playwright Sophocles
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Σοφοκλῆς ho Sophoklês | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Σοφοκλέους toû Sophokléous | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Σοφοκλεῖ tôi Sophokleî | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Σοφοκλέᾱ tòn Sophokléā | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Σοφόκλεις Sophókleis | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- Σοφόκλειος (Sophókleios)
- φιλοσοφοκλῆς (philosophoklês, “a lover of Sophocles”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
- “Σοφοκλῆς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Σοφοκλῆς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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