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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromΔᾱμόκρῐτος
- English todayDamocritus
From Ancient Greek Δᾱμόκρῐτος (Dāmókrĭtos), a variant of Δημόκρῐτος (Dēmókrĭtos). The well-known philosopher bearing the latter name, Democritus, is occasionally mixed up with this lesser-known author due to the similarity of their names.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.