Noun: wisdom
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | wīsdōm |
| Plural | wīsdōmas |
Genitive
| Singular | wīsdōmes |
| Plural | wīsdōma |
Dative
| Singular | wīsdōme |
| Plural | wīsdōmum |
Accusative
| Singular | wīsdōm |
| Plural | wīsdōmas |
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
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Ġyf þē þurh wȳsdōm findon þā ðe þē findon, forġyf mē þonne wȳsdōm... (If by wisdom they find Thee who find Thee, then give me wisdom.)
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Forġif mē wīsdōm, þæt iċ maġe þīn miċċle folc ġewissian, and iċ cunne tōcnāwan betwux gōd and yfel. (Give me wisdom, so that I can guide your great people, and can distinguish between good and evil.)
Nouns inflected like wisdom
wisdom,
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wīsadōmaz. Cognate with Old Frisian wīsdom, Old Saxon wīsdom, Old High German wīstuom, Old Norse vísdómr. Equivalent to wīs + dōm. See: Old Norse Nouns '
vísdómr'.
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