sophisma

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soˈpʰis.ma/, [s̠ɔˈpʰɪs̠mä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /soˈfis.ma/, [soˈfizmä]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σόφῐσμᾰ (sóphisma).

Noun

sophisma n (genitive sophismatis); third declension

1. a false conclusion, a fallacy, a sophism
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sophisma.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	sophisma	sophismata
genitive	sophismatis	sophismatum
dative	sophismatī	sophismatibus
accusative	sophisma	sophismata
ablative	sophismate	sophismatibus
vocative	sophisma	sophismata

Synonyms

• (false conclusion, fallacy, sophism): captiō (Pure Latin)

Derived terms

• sophismatius
• sophismatulum (New Latin)

Related terms

• sophismaticō (Mediaeval Latin)
• sophismaticus (New Latin)
• sophismation
• sophismatizō (New Latin)

Descendants

• → Catalan: sofisma
• Sicilian: fìsima, → sufìsima

References

• “sŏphisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sŏphisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,458/1.
• “sophisma” on page 1,792/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Etymology 2

Perhaps the same as sophisma n, above.

Noun

sophisma f (genitive sophismae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) wisdom, knowledge

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sophisma	sophismae
genitive	sophismae	sophismārum
dative	sophismae	sophismīs
accusative	sophismam	sophismās
ablative	sophismā	sophismīs
vocative	sophisma	sophismae

Synonyms

• (wisdom, knowledge): sophia, scientia

References

• SOPHISMA 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)