sofista

Borrowed from Latin sophista.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [suˈfis.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈfis.ta]

sofista m or f by sense (plural sofistes)

1. sophist

• sofisma
• sofístic

• “sofista”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsofɪsta]

sofista m anim

1. sophist (ancient teacher of eloquence)
2. sophist (impostor)

From Latin sophista.

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

1. sophist

• sofisma

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

• Fossati, fastosi, fissato, fossati, satisfò

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɔˈfɪs.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [soˈfis.t̪a]

sofista m (genitive sofistae); first declension

1. medieval spelling of sophistēs

First-declension noun.

• "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)

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

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈfis.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: so‧fis‧ta

sofista m pers

1. (Ancient Greece, historical, logic) sophist (one of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in Ancient Greece)
2. (logic) sophist (one who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument)

• sofista in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin sophista.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: so‧fis‧ta

sofista m or f by sense (plural sofistas)

1. sophist (all senses)

• sofisma

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

From Latin sophista.

• IPA^(key): /soˈfista/ [soˈfis.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: so‧fis‧ta

sofista m or f by sense (plural sofistas)

1. (philosophy) sophist

• “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], 10 December 2024