heraclitus

1. 1.

   a presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC)

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Other forms of heraclitus

plural

heraclituses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about heraclitus

What does heraclitus mean?

heraclitus means "a presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC)".

How many syllables are in heraclitus?

heraclitus has 4 syllables: he-ra-cli-tus. The stress falls on "ra".

Is heraclitus a common word?

heraclitus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.