Words · Meanings · Passages
Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,297 entries across 21 collectionsTerms beginning with F
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Foreknowledge
Praescientia and praevisio concern knowledge or foresight of what is future; praevidere is to foresee.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Forethought and caution
Promētheia is forethought; phylakē is caution or guarding; skepsis is examination.
Alcibiades II
Forgetfulness
Lēthē is forgetting or loss from memory.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Forgetting
Oubli is not invariably a failure of knowledge.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Forgiveness
Pardonner addresses a wrong while releasing hatred; it need not deny that judgment or punishment occurs.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Form
Eidos means visible figure or appearance.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+5 books
Form and shape
The source's several shape-words do not all have one function.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Form, essence and substance
This headword gathers a family of distinctions rather than declaring its words synonyms.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Formless
Amorphos denies determinate form or configuration.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Fortune and chance
Fortune can signify a power distributing outcomes, social circumstances or success.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Fountain and pri-material water
The fountain is the catholic first matter in its flowing, watery condition and generative function.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Fountain, womb and offspring
Fons is a spring or source.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Fountains, drawing and infusion
Fons is a fountain or spring.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Four elements
The four are earth, water, air and fire, named as constituents of the one natural subject and ensouled by fifth essence.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Four generations
Geneseis are generations, origins, or processes of coming-to-be.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Four royal tutors
Four adult Persians, judged the best in wisdom, justice, temperance and courage, are the “royal tutors” assigned to the heir at fourteen in Socrates’ account.
Alcibiades I
Four stages of cognition
The four names identify distinct cognitive activities in the account attributed to the Platonists.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Four-horse chariot
Tethrippos means with four horses; a four-horse chariot.
Lysis
Fourth Dimension
The Fourth Dimension is an additional independent extent beyond the three familiar to Spaceland.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Fracture
Thrausis is breaking or fracture.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Fragment and project
The notebook's language repeatedly announces its unfinished status: plans, suggestions, titles, questions, reminders and future chapters.
Intimate Journals
Fragments and Diels numbering
A fragment here is a numbered unit gathered by editors from a later witness, not necessarily a broken piece of a physical manuscript or an original unit of composition.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
François du Breil de Marzan
The young friend and poet identified by the historical note as François du Breil de Marzan, author of La Famille et l’Autel.
The Green Notebook
Freedom
Ἐλεύθερος and δοῦλος mark free and enslaved status.
Alcibiades I · The Lovers+6 books
Freedom from matter and causal priority
Freedom from matter concerns a mode of operation and dependence, not political liberty or an agent’s lack of obligations.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Freezing and solidification
Pēxis is a setting or solidifying.
Stobaeus, Volume I
French reading vocabulary — Baudelaire
These shorter records explain secondary vocabulary and constructions in their local setting.
Intimate Journals
French reading vocabulary — René
These shorter records explain secondary vocabulary and constructions in their local setting.
René
Fresh water in the sea
Glyky hydōr is sweet, hence fresh, water.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Friction
Paratripsis is friction or rubbing.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Friend and dear
Philos means friend; dear, loved, or valued; an attached or affectionate person.
Lysis
Friendship
Philos supplies both the substantive “friend” and familiar forms of address; its neuter philon can mean pleasing or welcome.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+7 books
Friendship and cosmic attraction
Philia is friendship or attachment; philotēs is a related term for love or union.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Frost
Pachnē is frost.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Frozen air
The Latin phrase means frozen air.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Fruit
Fruit is a living product and, figuratively, the outcome of an action, disposition, or power.
Centuries of Meditations · The Green Notebook+1 book
Books in the Lexicon
October 2026
Plato’s Alcibiades I Lexicon
Alcibiades I · Plato
176 entries · 701 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Alcibiades II Lexicon
Alcibiades II · Plato
94 entries · 290 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Traherne Lexicon
Centuries of Meditations · Thomas Traherne
471 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Charmides Lexicon
Charmides · Plato
173 entries · 777 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Empedocles Lexicon
Empedocles, Volumes I–II · Empedocles of Acragas
490 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Epinomis Lexicon
Epinomis · Plato
77 entries · 1,061 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Flatland Literary Lexicon
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions · Edwin A. Abbott
85 entries · 476 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Khunrath Lexicon
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · Heinrich Khunrath
326 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Hipparchus Lexicon
Hipparchus · Plato
90 entries · 291 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Baudelaire Literary Lexicon
Intimate Journals · Charles Baudelaire
80 entries · 323 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lysis Lexicon
Lysis · Plato
239 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I Lexicon
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino
231 entries · 1,313 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II Lexicon
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II · Marsilio Ficino
148 entries · 1,398 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Minos Lexicon
Minos · Plato
54 entries · 506 subsidiary terms
October 2026
René Literary Lexicon
René · François-René de Chateaubriand
81 entries · 275 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Stobaeus Lexicon
Stobaeus, Volume I · John Stobaeus
610 entries · 85 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy Lexicon
The Anatomy of Melancholy · Robert Burton
103 entries · 3,864 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Joubert Lexicon
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Joseph Joubert
459 entries · 110 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Theages Lexicon
Theages · Plato
62 entries · 510 subsidiary terms