Words · Meanings · Passages
Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,850 entries across 24 collectionsTerms beginning with W
73–89 of 89
Wonder
Wonder is both astonishment and the remarkable thing that provokes it.
Centuries of Meditations · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Wonder and strangeness
Wonder is the response to something puzzling or unexpected; atopos and its forms describe strangeness or being out of the ordinary.
Alcibiades I
Wonder initiation and contemplation
Thaumazein is to wonder at or admire; erōs desire or love; katamanthanein to learn thoroughly or observe with understanding.
Epinomis
Woods
Bois can mean woodland or wood as material; forêt stresses an extensive forest.
The Green Notebook
Wool-working and weaving
Ταλασιουργία is wool-working, the preparation and working of wool; ὑφαντική is weaving.
Alcibiades I · Lysis
Word
Mot names a verbal unit, but Joubert also imagines words as bodies possessing movement, texture and affective force.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Wording and expression
Lexis can mean wording or verbal expression.
Stobaeus, Volume I
World
Kosmos connects the world with order and adornment.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
World and universe
Monde may mean the world, a sphere of activity, or society; univers usually extends attention to the cosmic whole.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
World-soul
World-soul is a conventional name for the conception of the cosmos as a living whole informed by soul.
Centuries of Meditations · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum+1 book
Worship
Culte names religious worship and its observances, including both outward manifestation and inward orientation.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Worth and desert
Axios assesses worth or desert and often takes a genitive specifying what is merited: praise, a name, or value in some respect.
Charmides · Hipparchus+2 books
Worth possessing
Ἄξιος means worth or worthy of something; κεκτῆσθαι is the perfect infinitive of acquiring, here “to possess.”
Hipparchus
Wrath
Kotos is wrath or enduring resentment.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Writing
Graphō means write; set down letters in an order one understands.
Lysis · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+1 book
Written composition
Syngramma means written composition.
Lysis
Wrongdoing
Adikeō means do wrong; wrong or injure someone.
Lysis
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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry Lexicon
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry · R. Swinburne Clymer
131 entries · 495 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
295 entries · 6,097 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Kybalion Lexicon
The Kybalion · Three Initiates
92 entries · 347 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I Lexicon
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I · Attributed to Abraham the Jew
138 entries · 541 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