Socrates

See also: SOCRATES, Sócrates, and Sòcrates

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Socrates

  1. A Classical Greek philosopher.
  2. A male given name of mostly historical use.

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Dutch

Proper noun

Socrates m

  1. Socrates

German

Proper noun

Socrates m (genitive Socratis or Socrates or Socrates')

  1. (dated, now uncommon) Alternative form of Sokrates; Socrates

Declension

Younger declension:

  • Nom. Socrates
  • Gen. Socrates (with article), Socrates' (without article)
  • Dat. Socrates
  • Acc. Socrates

Older declension:

  • Nom. Socrates
  • Gen. Socratis (rarely Socrati)
  • Dat. Socrati
  • Acc. Socratem, Socraten
  • Voc. Socrates
  • Abl. Socrate

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrátēs).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sōcratēs m (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.

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).

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