Word Origin Summary

Σοφιστικός is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• sofistik

  Turkish · borrowed from

• sophistic

  English · derived from

• sofistică

  Romanian · borrowed from

• sophistique

  French · derived from

• sofistic

  Romanian · borrowed from

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