The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσοφιστικός
- Latin · learned borrowing fromsophisticus
- English todaysophistic
Learned borrowing from Latin sophisticus, borrowing of Ancient Greek σοφιστικός (sophistikós). Equivalent to sophist + -ic and sophism + -istic.
Words from the same roots
Latinsophisticus all →
sophisticate
Ancient Greekσοφιστικός all →
sophisticate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.