Etymology

philosophize

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Today it means: To ponder or reason out philosophically. Full definition →

English philosophy ← Middle English philosophie ← Old French philosophie
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰil-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰil-o-s
  3. Ancient Greekφῐ́λος (phĭ́los)
  4. Ancient Greekσοφός (sophós)
  5. Ancient Greekφῐλόσοφος (phĭlósophos)
  6. Ancient Greekφιλοσοφία (philosophía)
  7. Latinphilosophia
  8. Old Frenchphilosophie
  9. Middle Englishphilosophie
  10. Englishphilosophy
  11. English todayphilosophize

From philosophy + -ize.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.