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Adjective [English]

Forms: more Socratic [comparative], most Socratic [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin Sōcraticus, from Ancient Greek Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós, “of Socrates”), from Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs, “Socrates”), equivalent to Socrates + -ic. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|Sōcraticus}} Latin Sōcraticus, {{der|en|grc|Σωκρατικός||of Socrates}} Ancient Greek Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós, “of Socrates”), {{suf|en|Socrates|ic}} Socrates + -ic Head templates: {{en-adj}} Socratic (comparative more Socratic, superlative most Socratic)
  1. Of or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophical methods and/or views. Synonyms: Socratean, Socratian Derived forms: Socratic irony, Socratic method Translations (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates): Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós) (Ancient Greek), sokratovský (Czech), sokratisk (Danish), socratique (French), სოკრატული (soḳraṭuli) (Georgian), sokratisch (German), socratico (Italian), sokratisk (Norwegian Bokmål), sokratejski (Polish), sokratyczny (Polish), socrático (Portuguese), сократи́ческий (sokratíčeskij) (Russian), sokratisk (Swedish)
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Noun [English]

Forms: Socratics [plural]
Etymology: From Latin Sōcraticus, from Ancient Greek Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós, “of Socrates”), from Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs, “Socrates”), equivalent to Socrates + -ic. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|Sōcraticus}} Latin Sōcraticus, {{der|en|grc|Σωκρατικός||of Socrates}} Ancient Greek Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós, “of Socrates”), {{suf|en|Socrates|ic}} Socrates + -ic Head templates: {{en-noun}} Socratic (plural Socratics)
  1. A follower of Socrates. Translations (follower of Socrates): Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós) (Ancient Greek), Sokratiker [masculine] (German), սոկրատիկոս (sokratikos) (Old Armenian), socrático [masculine] (Portuguese), сокра́тик (sokrátik) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-Socratic-en-noun-G2GW4s5d

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.