Where does “philosophy” come from?
Philosophy comes from French philosophie, from Latin philosophia, from Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία, combining φίλος meaning lover with σοφός meaning wise.
philosophy (English): The love of wisdom; An academic discipline that...
Definitions
- The love of wisdom; An academic discipline that...
Ancestry of “philosophy”, step by step
philosophy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French philosophie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | philosophie | philosophy, the study of thoughts; philosophy,... |
| 2 | Old French | philosophie | philosophy |
| 3 | Latin | philosophia | philosophy |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | φιλοσοφία | love of knowledge, pursuit of knowledge; the... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ῐ́ᾱ | {{l|en|-ia}}; "suffix forming abstract feminine... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |
via Middle English philosophie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | philosophie | philosophy |
Words derived from “philosophy”
- philosophical
- philosophically
- philosophize
- unphilosophical
- metaphilosophical
- ecosophy
- metaphilosophy
- nonphilosophical
- unphilosophically
- ethnophilosophy
- ecophilosophy
- antiphilosophical
- antiphilosophy
- neurophilosophy
- religiophilosophical
- nonphilosophy
- ecophilosophical
- philosophizer
- ecosophical
- pseudophilosophy
- geophilosophy
- pseudophilosophical
- biophilosophy
- philosophization