sophisma

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɔˈpʰɪs.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [soˈfiz.ma]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σόφῐσμᾰ (sóphĭsmă).

sophisma n (genitive sophismatis); third declension

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

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

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

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

• “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)

Perhaps the same as sophisma n, above.

sophisma f (genitive sophismae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) wisdom, knowledge

First-declension noun.

• (wisdom, knowledge): sophia, scientia

• "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)