/ˈsɒfi/
OriginUltimately from Ancient Greek; see Sophia.
- 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.”
- obsolete, uncountablewisdom, knowledge, learning
“It had ben) beter to haue kepte the same sophie”
“Turn thee to mee, in caſe
Manhod ther bee ſo much left in thy hert:
Coom fight with mee: that on my helmet wear
Apolloes laurel, both for learnings laude,
And eke for Martiall prayſe: that, in my ſhie”
“Who knoweth not the difference betweene…semblance, and assurance; docosophy, and sophy?”
- alt-ofAlternative letter-case form of Sophy (“archaic form of Safawi”).
“Now it is high heaking time, and bee the windes neuer so eaſterly aduerſe and the tyde fled from vs, wee must violently towe and hale in our redoubtable Sophy, of the floating kingdom of Piſces, whome”
- obsoleteA wise man; a sage or wite.
“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 ”
“These Sophies finde with the Babe Iesus, onely Marie.”
“The Angels caroll’d loud their song of peace,
The cursed oracles were strucken dumb,
To see their Shepherd, the poor shepherds press,
To see their King, the kingly sophies come,
And them to guide unto”
- Any one of the various fields of study whose names end in -sophy.
“The various sophy’s — cosmosophy, kerdosophy.”
“Francis Moyen was, as here described, an interesting character in his way; a sparkling, talented, thoughtless Parisian, full of adventure and, with his beloved violin in his baggage, ever on the wing.”
Formssophie(alternative) · sophies(plural)