The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσόφῐσμᾰ
- Latin · derived fromsophisma“fallacy, sophism”
- Old French · derived fromsoffime
- Middle English · inherited fromsophim
- English todaysophism
From Middle English sophim, from Old French soffime, sofime, sofisme, sophisme, from Latin sophisma (“fallacy, sophism”), from Ancient Greek σόφῐσμᾰ (sóphĭsmă), from σοφίζω (sophízō) + -μα (-ma).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.