Sophus

Sophus

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.

• Mike Campbell (1996–2025), “Sophus”, in Behind the Name, Victoria, British Columbia.

• Shoups

A less common spelling of Sofus, from the Latin cognomen Sophus, from Ancient Greek meaning "wisdom"; a masculine equivalent of Sophia.

• IPA^(key): /soːfus/, [ˈsoːfus]

Sophus c

1. a male given name

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.pʰʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.fus]

From sophus (“wise, sage”).

Sophus m sg (genitive Sophī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Publius Sempronius Sophus, a Roman consul

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Sophus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Sophus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Arabic صَفَوِيّ (ṣafawiyy).

• Sophi

Sophus m sg (genitive Sophī); second declension

1. (New Latin) Sophy, Safawi

   Synonym: Safavidēs

   • 1622, Chronicon Morale‎^[1], page 811:

     Iſmael Sophus, Rex Perſarum

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   • 1670, Orbis terraqueus in tabulis geographicis et hydrographicis descriptus, à Simone Paulli bibliopola Argentinensi‎^[2], page 110:

     Sophorum Regnum

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   • 1740, Eginhartus, De Vita et Gestis Caroli Magni‎^[3], page 193:

     Romanorum Imperatores Caeſares, Perſarum Reges Sophi, Franciae Reges Merovaei primum, dein Carolini, Carolingi, Carolides, tandem Capevingi ab Hugone Capeto nuncupati ſunt.

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Second-declension noun.