Eleatic
/ˌɛliˈætɪk/adjective, noun
Eleatic is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-L-E-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Eleatic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses.
noun
- 1
A philosopher of the Eleatic school.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Eleatic?
- /ˌɛliˈætɪk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Eleatic
- more Eleatic comparative
- most Eleatic superlative
- Eleatics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Eleatic?
Eleatic appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Eleatic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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Where does Eleatic come from?
Borrowed from Latin Eleāticus, from Ancient Greek ’Ελεατικός (’Eleatikós), from Ἐλέα (Eléa, “Elea, Velia”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).