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sophumer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
so-phumer
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A student in the second year of a four-year college.

Obsolete

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō) Ancient Greek σοφίζω (sophízō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μα (-ma) Ancient Greek σόφισμα (sóphisma)bor. English sophum, sophom Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English sophumer First cited in the mid-1600s; from the obsolete sophom, sophum (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), from Ancient Greek σόφισμα (sóphisma), + -er (suffix denoting a person characterized by the root).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

sophumers (plural)

Derived Forms

sophomore

Questions

What does sophumer mean?
A student in the second year of a four-year college.
Where does sophumer come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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