Stagirite

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Stagirite

/ˈstæd͡ʒɪɹʌɪt/
/ˈstæɡɪɹʌɪt/

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From the Latin Stagirites, from the Ancient Greek Σταγιριτης (Stagiritēs, “natives of Stagira”), from Σταγειρος (Stageiros, “Stagira”).

noun Stagirites · Stagyrite

Someone from Stagira.

proper noun Stagyrite

Aristotle. It was thus a sound insight into the thought framework of the great Stagirite that led the anti-Aristotelian writers of the Renaissance, and later preeminently Descartes and Spinoza, to attack the Platonic/Aristotelian conception of the embodiment of value in nature and the modern logical positivist

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@misc{stagirite_2026,
  title = {Stagirite},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stagirite},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}