agnostic – English noun declension

English noun forms of agnostic

Noun: agnostic
Singularagnostic
Pluralagnostics

Sample Sentences

  • The Agnostic is one who asserts—what no one denies—that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence. [1876 June 1, Leslie Stephen, “An Agnostic's Apology”, in The Forthnightly Review, volume 25/19, number 114, page 840:]
  • An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned. [1953 November 3, Bertrand Russell, “What is an Agnostic?”, in Look:]
  • When I say I'm an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn't in. There isn't compelling evidence that God exists — at least your kind of god — and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't. [1985, Carl Sagan, Contact: a novel, New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 175:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
3. Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.
6. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō
7. Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō)
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
9. Proto-Hellenic *-tós
10. Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
11. Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos)der.
12. Proto-Indo-European *né
13. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
14. Proto-Hellenic *ə-
15. Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
16. English a-
17. Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
18. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
19. Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder.
20. Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnôsis)
21. ▲
22. Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
23. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
24. Proto-Hellenic *-kos
25. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
26. ?
27. ▲
28. Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
29. ▲
30. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
31. ?
32. Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
33. Ancient Greek γνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós)
34. English Gnostic
35. English agnostic
36. Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870. Either from Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos, “ignorant, not knowing”), or from a- + Gnostic, deriving (either way) from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”).

Verbs referencing "agnostic"

French Nouns agnostique, Finnish Nouns agnostikko, German Nouns Agnostiker, Russian Nouns агностик, Ukrainian Nouns агностик, Portuguese Nouns agnóstico, Italian Nouns agnostico, Polish Nouns agnostyk, Greek Nouns αγνωστικιστής, Greek Nouns αγνωστικίστρια, Dutch Nouns agnost, Dutch Nouns agnosticus.