# Socrates
## English
### Alternative forms

* Sokrates

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs). Doublet of Sokratis.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɒkɹətiːz/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈsɑkɹətiz/
** Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Soc‧ra‧tes

### Proper noun

Socrates
* A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, known after a Greek philosopher.
** 1996, John M. Cooper, “Introduction”, in Plato: Complete Works, Hackett, page xxii:Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.

#### Derived terms

* Socratic
* Socratic method
* Socratic irony

#### Translations
### See also

* Archimedes
* Aristotle
* Plato
* Pythagoras

### Anagrams

* actoress, coarsest, coasters

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* Sokrates

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrắtēs).

### Proper noun

Socrates m
* Socrates

#### Derived terms

* socratisch

### Further reading

* Socrates on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## German
### Proper noun

Socrates m (proper noun, strong, genitive Socrates' or Socratis or (with an article) Socrates)
* Archaic spelling of Sokrates (“Socrates”).

#### Usage notes

* Formerly also declined like Latin Socrates, which see.

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrắtēs).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsoː.kra.teːs/, [ˈs̠oːkrät̪eːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈso.kra.tes/, [ˈsɔːkrät̪es]

### Proper noun

Sōcratēs m sg (genitive Sōcratis or Sōcratī); third declension
* 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 noun, singular only.
* There are also rare genitives Sōcratūs (Late Latin) and Sōcrateos (New Latin).

#### Related terms

* Sōcraticī
* Sōcraticus
* Sōcratiōn

### References

* “Sōcrătes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Socrates 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)
* Sōcrătēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,452/1.
* “Sōcratēs” on page 1,780/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

### Further reading

* Socrates on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{la}$