sophist

Etymology
, also, itself borrowed from , from.

Noun

 * 1) One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
 * 2)  A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.
 * 3)  One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.

Usage notes

 * The meaning of "sophist" can vary depending on the time period to which one is referring. A sophist of the earliest period was a master in his art or craft who demonstrated (taught by example) his practical skill/learning in exchange for pay. Later sophists were providers of a well-rounded education intended to give pupils arete – "virtue, human excellence". By late antiquity, sophistḗs / sophistes tended to denote exclusively a skilled public speaker and/or teacher of rhetoric.

Translations

 * Catalan: sofista
 * Czech: sofista
 * Danish: sofist
 * Esperanto: sofisto
 * Galician: sofista
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σοφιστής
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: sufista
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 * Arabic: سَفْسَطِيّ, سَفْسَطَائِيّ
 * Catalan: sofista
 * Czech: sofista
 * Danish: sofist
 * Galician: sofista
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Persian: سوفیست
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: sufista