Gorgias

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɔɹdʒi.əs/

Proper noun

Gorgias

  1. Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician.

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γοργίας (Gorgías).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡor.ɡi.aːs/, [ˈɡɔr.ɡi.aːs]

Proper noun

Gorgiās m (genitive Gorgiae); first declension

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

Declension

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ās.

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

Descendants

References
  • 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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