sophus

From Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, adjective). Compare to Latin sapiēns (adjective).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.pʰus/, [ˈsɔ.pʰʊs]

sophus (feminine sopha, neuter sophum); first/second declension

1. Wise, sage, shrewd.
   • c. 15 BCE – c. 50 CE, Phaedrus (fabulist), Fabulae 3.14.9–11:

     Tum victor sophus: ¶ Cito rumpes arcum semper si tensum habueris; ¶ At si laxaris, cum voles erit utilis.

   • Ælfric Bata, edited by Scott Gwara and translated into English by David W. Porter, Anglo-Saxon Conversations: The colloquies of Ælfric Bata, 1997, page 184f.:

     Consultius est uobis esse sophos quam stolidos et ebetes [= hebetes] uel inertes et ignaros.

     It is better for you to be wise than foolish, dull, lazy or ignorant.

First/second declension.

Note: The feminine and the neuter forms are unattested.

sophus m (genitive sophī); second declension

1. A wise man, a sage.

• sophos

Second declension.

Note:
Several inflected forms could belong to both sophos and sophus, as for example the genitive plural sophōrum in this medieval text:

• Monumenta Germaniae historicae. Poetarum latinorum medii aevi tomus I. – Poetae latini aevi Carolini. Tomus I edited by Ernestus Duemmler, Berlin, 1881, page 294 containing Alcuinus (or Albinus), carmina, LXXII:

  [...] simul argumenta sophorum, [...]

A form which only belongs to sophus and not to sophos occurs in these medieval mentionings:

• Classicorum auctorum e vaticanis codibus editorum tomus VIII: Thesaurus novus latinatis, sive lexicon vetus e membranis nunc primum erutum, edited by A. M. (= Angelus Maius), Roma, 1836, page 544 (first and second declension adjective are commonly mentioned as ...us, a, um in it) – this work is elsewhere attributed to Osbern of Gloucester, in German to Osbern von Gloucester with the title "Panormia oder Derivationes":

  [...] inde hic sophus † sapiens [...]

• Uguccione da Pisa – Derivationes – Edizione critica princeps a cura di Enzo Cecchini, 2004 containing the Derivationes by Hugutio Pisanus or Huguccio Pisanus (Italian Uguccione da Pisa, English Huguccio of Pisa, Hugutio of Pisa or Hugh of Pisa):

  SOPHOS grece, latine dicitur sapiens vel cautus, sapienter dictus, et versa -os in -us dicitur hic sophus -phi, idest sapiens;

• sŏphus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sophus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sophus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sophus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• "sophos", in James Bailey, ed., The universal Latin lexicon of Facciolauts and Forcellinus, new ed., London : Baldwin and Cradock, 1828, v. 2, p. 585. →OCLC.
• "sŏphŏs or sŏphŭs", in Frederick Percival Leverett, ed., A new and copious lexicon of the Latin language, new ed., Boston: Bazin & Ellsworth, 1850, v. 1, p. 836. →OCLC.
• "Sophus", in Charles Anthon, A Latin-English and English-Latin dictionary, for the use of schools, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852 (1853 printing), p. 830. →OCLC.
• "Sŏphus (-ŏs)" in James R. V. Marchant, Joseph F. Charles, eds., Cassell's Latin dictionary, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953 printing, p. 532. →OCLC.
• "sŏphos or sŏphus", in George R. Crooks, Alexander J. Schem, eds., A new Latin-English school lexicon : on the basis of the Latin-German lexicon of Dr. C. F. Ingerslev, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1867, p. 850. →OCLC.