Socrates

See also: SOCRATES, Sócrates, and Sòcrates

English

Alternative forms

• Sokrates

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs). Doublet of Sokratis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒkɹətiːz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑkɹətiz/

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• Hyphenation: Soc‧ra‧tes

Proper noun

Socrates

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, known after a Greek philosopher.

Derived terms

• Socratic
• Socratic method
• Socratic irony

Translations

Greek philosopher

• Arabic: سُقْرَاط m (suqrāṭ), سُوكْرَاتِس m (sukrātis) (untraditional)

  Hijazi Arabic: سُقْراط m (suqrāṭ, sugrāṭ)

• Armenian: Սոկրատես (Sokrates)

  Old Armenian: Սոկրատէս (Sokratēs)

• Azerbaijani:

  Abjad: سقراط (Suqrāt)

  Roman: Sokrat, Süqrat

• Bengali: সুকরাত (śukrat)
• Bihari: सुकरात
• Bulgarian: Сокра́т m (Sokrát)
• Burmese: ဆိုကရေးတီး (hcuika.re:ti:)
• Catalan: Sòcrates
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘇格拉底／苏格拉底 (zh) (Sūgélādǐ)

• Czech: Sokrates (cs) m, Sókratés (cs) m
• Danish: Sokrates
• Dutch: Socrates (nl) m
• Esperanto: Sokrato
• Estonian: Sokrates
• Finnish: Sokrates (fi)
• French: Socrate (fr) m

  Middle French: Socrates

  Old French: Socrate

• Georgian: სოკრატე (soḳraṭe)
• German: Sokrates m
• Greek: Σωκράτης (el) m (Sokrátis)

  Ancient: Σωκράτης m (Sōkrátēs)

• Gujarati: સુકરાત m (sukrāt)
• Hebrew: סוקראטס m (Sokrates)
• Hindi: सुकरात (hi) (sukrāt), सुक़रात m (suqrāt)
• Hungarian: Szókratész (hu)
• Icelandic: Sókrates m
• Italian: Socrate (it)
• Japanese: ソクラテス (Sokuratesu)
• Khmer: សូក្រាត (soukraat)
• Korean: 소크라테스 (Sokeurateseu)
• Latin: Sōcratēs m
• Latvian: Sokrats
• Lithuanian: Sokratas
• Malay: Socrates
• Maltese: Sokrate
• Marathi: सुकरात (sukrāt)
• Nepali: सुकरात (sukarāt)
• Norwegian: Sokrates
• Ottoman Turkish: سقراط (soqrât)
• Persian: سقراط (fa) m (soqrât), سوکراتس m (sukrâtes)
• Polish: Sokrates (pl) m
• Portuguese: Sócrates (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸੁਕਰਾਤ (pa) (sukrāt)
• Romanian: Socrate m
• Russian: Сокра́т (ru) m (Sokrát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сократ m

  Latin: Sokrat m

• Slovak: Sokrates m
• Slovene: Sókrat (sl) m
• Spanish: Sócrates (es) m
• Swedish: Sokrates c
• Turkish: Sokrates (tr)

See also

• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Pythagoras

Anagrams

• actoress, coarsest, coasters

Dutch

Proper noun

Socrates m

1. Socrates

German

Proper noun

Socrates m (proper noun, strong, genitive Socrates' or Socratis or (with an article) Socrates)

1. Archaic spelling of Sokrates (“Socrates”).

Usage notes

• Formerly also declined like Latin Socrates, which see.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrátēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.kra.teːs/, [ˈs̠oːkrät̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.kra.tes/, [ˈsɔːkrät̪es]

Proper noun

Sōcratēs m sg (genitive Sōcratis or Sōcratī); third declension

1. Socrates
   • 5th century, Paulinus Pellaeus, Eucharisticon Deo sub ephemeridis meae textu (ΕΥΧΑΡΙϹΤΗΤΙΚΌϹ Deo sub Ephemeridis meae Textu). In: Ausonius with an English translation by Hugh G. Evelyn White. Vol. II. With the Eucharisticus of Paulinus Pellaeus, 1921, p. 312f.

     Nec sero exacto primi mox tempore lustri
     dogmata Socratus et bellica plasmata Homeri
     erroresque legens cognoscere cogor Ulixis.

     Full early, when the days of my first lustrum were well-nigh spent, I was made to con and learn the doctrines of Socrates, Homer's warlike fantasies, and Ulysses' wanderings.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Sōcratēs
Genitive	Sōcratis Sōcratī
Dative	Sōcratī
Accusative	Sōcratem Sōcratēn
Ablative	Sōcrate
Vocative	Sōcratē Sōcrates

• There are also rare genitives Sōcratūs (Late Latin) and Sōcrateos (New Latin).

Related terms

• Sōcraticī
• Sōcraticus
• Sōcratiōn

References

• “Sōcrătes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Socrates 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)
• Sōcrătēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,452/1.
• “Sōcratēs” on page 1,780/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Socrates on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la