Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

presocratic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables: pre-so-crat-ic
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any Ancient Greek philosopher who preceded or was roughly contemporaneous with Socrates and whose methods and views were influenced neither directly nor indirectly by Socrates or his primary student, Plato.

adj

of, or characteristic of, such a philosopher (or these philosophers) as a whole.

Example Sentences

"The Great Mother is no simple notion from primitive religion, but an idea in a complex mythology that became demythologized and secularized by the Presocratics, but not changed."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English Socratic English Presocratic From pre- + Socratic.

Inflected Forms

Presocratics (plural) Pre-Socratic (alternative)

Synonyms

pre-socratic

Questions

What does presocratic mean?: Any Ancient Greek philosopher who preceded or was roughly contemporaneous with Socrates and whose methods and views were influenced neither directly nor indirectly by Socrates or his primary student, Plato.
Where does presocratic come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English Socratic English Presocratic From pre- + Socratic.

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