# sofista
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sophista.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [suˈfis.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [soˈfis.ta]

### Noun

sofista m or f by sense (plural sofistes)
* sophist

#### Related terms

* sofisma
* sofístic

### Further reading

* “sofista” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “sofista”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “sofista” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “sofista” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsofɪsta]

### Noun

sofista m anim
* sophist (ancient teacher of eloquence)
* sophist (impostor)

#### Related terms

* sofismus
* sofistický
* sofistika
* sofistikovaný

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin sophista.

### Noun

sofista m or f by sense (masculine plural sofisti, feminine plural sofiste)
* sophist

#### Related terms

* sofisma

### Further reading

* sofista in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Fossati, fastosi, fissato, fossati, satisfò

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /soˈfis.ta/, [s̠ɔˈfɪs̠t̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /soˈfis.ta/, [soˈfist̪ä]

### Noun

sofista m (genitive sofistae); first declension
* medieval spelling of sophistēs

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

### References

* SOFISTA 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)

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sophista, an alternative form of sophistes, from Ancient Greek σοφῐστής (sophĭstḗs).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔˈfis.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ista
* Syllabification: so‧fis‧ta

### Noun

sofista m pers
* (Ancient Greece, historical, logic) sophist (one of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in Ancient Greece)
* (logic) sophist (one who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument)

#### Related terms

* sofistyczny
* sofistycznie
* sofistyka
* sofizm
* sofizmat

### Further reading

* sofista in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin sophista.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /soˈfis.tɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /soˈfis.tɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /soˈfiʃ.tɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /soˈfis.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /suˈfiʃ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -istɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtɐ
* Hyphenation: so‧fis‧ta

### Noun

sofista m or f by sense (plural sofistas)
* sophist (all senses)

#### Related terms

* sofisma

### Further reading

* “sofista”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin sophista.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /soˈfista/ [soˈfis.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ista
* Syllabification: so‧fis‧ta

### Noun

sofista m or f by sense (plural sofistas)
* (philosophy) sophist

#### Related terms

* sofisma

### Further reading

* “sofista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10