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SOPHOMORE

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 429 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SOPHOMORE , the name in American universities (corresponding to "sophister " at
Cambridge
 , England, and Trinity College, Dublin) for a student who has completed his first year of academic studies. It is a corruption of the earlier " sophimore," due to a supposed derivation from vocbbr, wise, and iopos, foolish, alluding to the air of wisdom assumed by students after their freshman's year was concluded. The earlier word " sophimore " (cf. "
Laws
  of Yale
Coll
 ., 1774," in
Hall
 's College Words) represents " sophismer," a doublet of " sophister," and means an arguer or debater (cf. the
Cambridge
  use of " wrangler "), and is formed from the Greek oo4ivaa, sophism, an ingenious or captious
argument
 .


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