apodixis
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Examples (rhetoric) |
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Everyone knows that global warming causes more extreme weather. |
apodixis
- (rhetoric) Supporting a proposition by reference to common knowledge.
Translations edit
proposition referencing common knowledge
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Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.poˈdiːk.sis/, [äpɔˈd̪iːks̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.poˈdik.sis/, [äpoˈd̪iksis]
Noun edit
apodīxis f (genitive apodīxis or apodīxeōs or apodīxios); third declension
- (post-Classical) proof, demonstration
- 5th century, Pseudo-Ambrose, Epistolae, section 1.10:
- Crudelissima omnium feminarum, in filium meum voluisti apodixin tuae artis magicae demonstrare?
- Cruellest of all women, did you desire to demonstrate the proof of your magical art upon my son?
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | apodīxis | apodīxēs apodīxeis |
Genitive | apodīxis apodīxeōs apodīxios |
apodīxium |
Dative | apodīxī | apodīxibus |
Accusative | apodīxim apodīxin apodīxem1 |
apodīxēs apodīxīs |
Ablative | apodīxī apodīxe1 |
apodīxibus |
Vocative | apodīxis apodīxi |
apodīxēs apodīxeis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
References edit
- “apodixis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apodixis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- apodixis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- apodixis in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “apodixis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 49