Theophrastus

Theophrastus

1. An Ancient Greek philosopher

From Ancient Greek Θεόφραστος (Theóphrastos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tʰe.ɔˈpʰras.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪e.oˈfras.t̪us]

Theophrastus m sg (genitive Theophrastī); second declension

1. A Greek philosopher of Eressus, disciple of Plato and Aristotle

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Theophrastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Theophrastus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.