Word Origin Summary

Φιλοσοφία 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

• filosofija

  Maltese · derived from

• pilosopiya

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• фәлсапа

  Kazakh · derived from

• ⲫⲓⲗⲟⲥⲟⲫⲓⲁ

  Coptic · borrowed from

• falsafah

  Indonesian · derived from

• filozofie

  Romanian · derived from

• falsafah

  MSA · derived from

• filosofia

  Portuguese · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root