apófase

Portuguese

Etymology

Via Late Latin apophasis from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis, “denial, negation”) from ἀπο- (apo-, “away, from, off”) +‎ φάσις (phásis, “statement, proposition”) from φημί (phēmí, “to speak”) from Proto-Hellenic *pʰā́mā from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂; whence via Proto-Italic *fāōr, *fāmā comes Latin fārī, fāma, cognate to fala, Spanish fama, English fame.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.fa.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.fa.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.fa.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈpɔ.fɐ.zɨ/

Noun

apófase f (plural apófases)

1. (rhetoric) apophasis (allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned)
2. (theology) apophatism (a belief, a theory on approaching knowledge of God in a negative way)

   Synonym: apofatismo