Words With Similar Definitions
Greek	1: mêtis	2: sumphilosopheô	3: poluplokia	4: phradmosunê	5: diaphusikeuomai
Latin	1: calliditas	2: sapientia	3: astutia	4: prudentia	5: sycophantia
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Words That Regularly Appear With sophia
In Perseus Texts:	sophos	aretê	epistêmê	dikaiosunê	andreia
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sophia, Ion. -iê, hê, prop. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, as in carpentry, tektonos, hos rha te pasês eu eidêi s. Hom. Il. 15.412; of the Telchines, Pind. O. 7.53; hê entechnos s., of Hephaestus and Athena, Plat. Prot. 32 au=Pl. Prt. =lr; of Daedalus and Palamedes, Xen. Mem. 4.2.33, cf. au=Xen. Mem. 1.4.2; in music and singing, technêi kai s. HH 4.483, cf. au=h.Merc. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pind. O. 1.117, Aristoph. Frogs 882, Xen. Anab. 1.2.8, etc.; in driving, Plat. Theag. 123c; in medicine or surgery, Pind. P. 3.54; in divination, Soph. OT 502 (lyr.); dusthanatôn hupo sophias eis gêras aphiketo Plat. Rep. 406b; s. dêmêgorikê, dikanikê, IBID=au=Plat. Rep. 365d; hê peri Homêrou s. IDEM=Plat. Ion 542a; ou sophiai alla phusei poiein IDEM=Plat. Apol. 22b; sêmainontes tên s . . ., hoti aretê technês estin Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1141a12: rare in pl., Pind. O. 9.107, Aristoph. Frogs 676 (lyr.), IG12.522 (vase, v B.C.).

2. skill in matters of common life. sound judgement, intelligence, practical wisdom, etc., such as was attributed to the seven sages, like phronêsis , Thgn.790,au=Thgn. 876,au=Thgn. 1074, Hdt. 1.30,au=Hdt. 1.60=lr; hê tôn deinôn s., opp.amathia, Plat. Prot. 360d; tên tote kaloumenên s., ousan de deinotêta politikên kai drastêrion sunesin Plut. Them. 2; also, cunning, shrewdness, craft, Hdt. 1.68, etc.; to loidorês ai theous echthra s. Pind. O. 9.38.

3. learning, wisdom, meizô tina ê kat' anthrôpon sophian sophoi Plat. Apol. 20e; opp. amathia, IBID=au=Plat. Apol. 22e; freq. in E., e.g. morsima . . ou sophiai tis apôsetai ti=Eur. Heraclid. 615 (lyr.); to sophon ou sophia (v. sophos I.3) ti=Eur. Ba. 395 (lyr.), etc.; freq. in Arist., speculative wisdom, EN au=Arist. =lr, ti=Aristot. Met. 982a2, au=Aristot. Met. 995b12 (pl.), au=Aristot. Met. 1059a18; defined as theiôn te kai anthrôpinôn epistêmê, Stoic.2.15; but also of natural philosophy and mathematics, s. tis kai hê phusikê Aristot. Met. 1005b1, cf. au=Aristot. Met. 1061b33.

4. among the Jews, archê sophias phobos Kuriou LXX Pr.1.7, cf. ti=LXX Jb.28.28, al.; Sophia, recognized first as an attribute of God, was later identified with the Spirit of God, cf. LXX Pr.8 with ti=LXX Si.24sq.

5. later as a title, hê humetera, hê humôn s., POxy.1165.6, PSI7.790.14 (both vi A.D.).