Σωκράτης

From σῶς (sôs, “safe and sound”, the root of σῴζω (sṓizō)) +‎ κράτος (krátos, “power”) +‎ -ης (-ēs, adjectival suffix).

Σωκρᾰ́της • (Sōkrátēs) m (genitive Σωκρᾰ́τους, diminutive Σωκρᾰτίδῐον); third declension

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Socrates
2. in particular, the 5th century BCE philosopher Socrates

• Σωκρᾰτῐκός (Sōkratikós)

• Greek: Σωκράτης (Sokrátis)
• → Arabic: سُقْرَاط‎ (suqrāṭ)
  • → Persian: سقراط‎ (soqrât)
    • → Azerbaijani: Sokrat
    • → Bengali: সুকরাত (sukrat)
    • → Bihari: सुकरात
    • → Gujarati: સુકરાત (sukrāt)
    • → Hindi: सुकरात (sukrāt)
    • → Maithili: सुकरात
    • → Marathi: सुकरात (sukrāt)
    • → Nepali: सुकरात (sukarāta)
    • → Punjabi: ਸੁਕਰਾਤ (sukrāt)
• → Bengali: সোক্রাতেস (sokrates), সক্রাতেস (sôkrates)
• Chinese: 苏格拉底 (sū gé lā dǐ)
• → Latin: Sōcratēs
  • → English: Socrates
• → Old Armenian: Սոկրատէս (Sokratēs)
  • → Armenian: Սոկրատես (Sokrates)

• Σωκράτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs).

• IPA^(key): /soˈkɾatis/
• Hyphenation: Σω‧κρά‧της

Σωκράτης • (Sokrátis) m

1. Socrates, the 5th century BCE philosopher.
2. A male given name, equivalent to English Socrates
3. A saint whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 10 April.