sophy means A diminutive of the female given name Sophia. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
sophy is pronounced /ˈsɒfi/.
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek; see Sophia.
name
- A diminutive of the female given name Sophia.“I knew Sophy was a good girl, and would not fall in love to make me angry.”
noun
- wisdom, knowledge, learning“It had ben) beter to haue kepte the same sophie”
- A wise man; a sage.“Yet notwithstanding some men in sundrie nations have mounted above the common rate, and indevored to cherish and advaunce the said Insights, and drawen some small sparkes of truth and wisedome out of them, as out of some little fire raked up under a great heape of ashes; the which they have afterward taught unto others, and for so doing have bene called Sophies and Philosophers, that is to say, Wi”
- Any one of the various fields of study whose names end in -sophy.“The various sophy’s — cosmosophy, kerdosophy.”
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