Gorgias

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

Gorgias

  1. plural of Gorgia

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɔɹd͡ʒi.əs/

Proper noun[edit]

Gorgias

  1. Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician.
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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γοργίας (Gorgías).

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Gorgiās m sg (genitive Gorgiae); first declension

  1. Greek sophist, philosopher and rhetorician, born in Leontini

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Gorgiās
Genitive Gorgiae
Dative Gorgiae
Accusative Gorgiān
Ablative Gorgiā
Vocative Gorgiā

Descendants[edit]

  • Italian: Gorgia

References[edit]

  • Gorgias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Gorgias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Gorgias”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Proper noun[edit]

Gorgias m

  1. (philosophy) an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, sophist and rhetorician from Leontini (483 – 375 BC)