Socratic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /səˈkɹætɪk/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /səˈkɹatɪk/ (British, Southern, Standard)
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrắtēs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰτῐκός (Sōkrătĭkós)bor. Latin Sōcratic(us)bor. English Socratic Borrowed from Latin Sōcratic(us). By surface analysis, Socrat(es) + -ic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
His closest companions were handsome young boys who worshipped him and his game, whom Bill sought to remake in his own image. He had no family, no real heirs, and so his boys were his spiritual sons as well as his heirs in tennis. They were his lovers as well. Theirs was a relationship of a Socratic sort, a pedagogical eroticism between an adolescent protege which ingaged them in a mutual project of spiritual and physical development.
1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14:
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(not-comparable, specifically) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods. ▸ Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Socratic irony or the Socratic method.
a Socratic question
Deriveds
Presocratic · Socratically · Socratic love · antisocratic · pre-Socratic · Socraticism · Socratic method · Socratic irony
Synonyms
Socratian · Socratean · Socratian · Socratean
Translations (15)
it socratico (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · ka სოკრატული (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · pt socrático (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · da sokratisk (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · sv sokratisk (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · grc Σωκρατικός (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · pl sokratejski (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · nb sokratisk (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · cs sokratovský (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · pl sokratyczny (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · ru сократи́ческий (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · de sokratisch (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · fr socratique (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · es socrático (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates) · ca socràtic (characteristic of the philosopher Socrates)