Sophie

See also: sophie

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsəʊfi/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊfi

Proper noun

Sophie

  1. A female given name from French Sophie, equivalent to English Sophia of Ancient Greek origin.
    • 1832 Barry Cornwall, English Songs, 1851, LXXXV ("To Sophie"):
      Wilt thou be a nun, Sophie? / Nothing but a nun? / Is it not a better thing / With thy friends to laugh and sing?
    • 1991, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, →ISBN, pages 241, 252:
      No, like a small child, my daughter, Sophie Anne Louise. We gave her three names, all of which exist in English as well as in French, so she can change her name just by changing her accent. - - -
      Sophie Anne Louise. It is a bit pretentious, do you not find? Maybe it is better in English. Sophie Anne Louise. No, it still sounds like one of Queen Victoria's grandchildren.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Sophia.
    • 1995, Marilyn Seguin, The Bell Keeper: The story of Sophia and the Massacre of the Indians at Gnadenhutten, Ohio, in 1782, page 8:
      Sophia landed on her behind on the soft moss that lined the river bank. "Besides, you don't win yet, Sophie," he said. "I have one more stone still."
  3. A village in the Ouest department, Haiti.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See Sophy.

Noun

Sophie (plural Sophies)

  1. Archaic spelling of Safavi[1]
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 167, columns 1–2:
      The Prince of Morocco:
      [] By this Symitare,
      That ſlew the Sophie, and a Perſian Prince []
    • 1980, Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids, Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 259:
      The Safavid shahs were commonly termed by Western writers "Sophie", "Sophy", "Sophi" or "Soffi". All these terms were probably corruptions of Ṣafī, the name of the founder of the Safavid Order, rather than of Ṣūfī, as the Safavid supporters called themselves.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sophie.

References

  1. Sophy, n.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Cebuano

Etymology

From the English Sophie, the pet form of Sophia or from French Sophie. From Ancient Greek σοφία (sophía, wisdom).

Proper noun

Sophie

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from French, in turn from Ancient Greek]

Danish

Proper noun

Sophie

  1. a female given name, variant of Sofie

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔ.fi/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Sophie f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia
  2. (archaic) Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)
    Synonym: Sofia

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zoˈfiː/
    • (file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈzɔfi/ (chiefly pet form of the above or of Sophia)

Proper noun

Sophie f (proper noun, genitive Sophies or (with an article) Sophie)

  1. a female given name, variant of Sophia

Alternative forms

Norman

Proper noun

Sophie f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Sophie c (genitive Sophies)

  1. a female given name, a less common spelling of Sofie

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Sophie, pet form of Sophia, from Ancient Greek σοφία (sophía, wisdom).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈsowfi/ [ˈsoʊ̯.fɪ]
    • IPA(key): (more native-sounding) /ˈsowpi/ [ˈsoʊ̯.pɪ]
  • Rhymes: -owfi, (more native-sounding) -owpi
  • Syllabification: So‧phie

Proper noun

Sophie (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜏ᜔ᜉᜒ)

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]
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