From the 3rd-century Ancient Greek Δειπνοσοφισταί (Deipnosophistaí, "The Deipnosophists") by Athenaeus, derived from δειπνο- + σοφιστής. Sometimes misunderstood owing to confusion with pejorative senses of sophist.
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