sophy

Meaning

Noun

• wisdom, knowledge, learning
• Alternate spelling of Sophy.
• A wise man; a sage or wite.
• Any one of the various fields of study whose names end in -sophy.

Origin

• From the Latin sophia, from the Ancient Greek σοφία; compare Sophia.
• See Sophy.
• A back-formation from sophies, originally plurale tantum, but later attested in singular use (see the 1678 quotation), itself an irregular Anglicisation of the Latin sophī, whence the English sophi; compare sophy.
• An irregular Anglicisation of sophi; compare sophy ³.
• From the common termination of the class of words denoted (e.g., philosophy, theosophy, etc.); compare the earlier ology and ism, and the later logy and osophy.