All I got is a similar sounding "sophist/sophistry" which generally has a negative modern connotation although the ancient Greeks had a different idea. Ah, looking at a dictionary entry for "sophist" shows this:
ORIGIN
mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek sophistēs, from sophizesthai ‘devise, become wise’, from sophos ‘wise’.
Well, we're getting "wise" to them, I'd say.
edit: also "sophistication/sophisticated" come from this origin.
All I got is a similar sounding "sophist/sophistry" which generally has a negative modern connotation although the ancient Greeks had a different idea. Ah, looking at a dictionary entry for "sophist" shows this:
ORIGIN mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek sophistēs, from sophizesthai ‘devise, become wise’, from sophos ‘wise’.
Well, we're getting "wise" to them, I'd say.
edit: also "sophistication/sophisticated" come from this origin.
I recall Sophistry as “false wisdom”