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- Ancient Greek · derived fromΔειπνοσοφισταί
- English todaydeipnosophist
From the 3rd-century Ancient Greek Δειπνοσοφισταί (Deipnosophistaí) by Athenaeus, derived from δειπνο- (deipno-, “deipno-, dinner-”) + σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “one knowledgeable in the arts of ~”). Sometimes misunderstood owing to confusion with pejorative senses of sophist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.