ampliatio

English

Examples (rhetoric)
Dead man walking. (He's not dead yet.)

Etymology

From Latin ampliātiō (“extending; a deferring of the decision of a judge”). Doublet of ampliation.

Noun

ampliatio (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) Using an epithet of something or someone for effect, when that epithet is not truly applicable.
2. (Roman law) A deferred decision.

Synonyms

• (Roman law): adjournment

Hyponyms

• (rhetoric): prolepsis

Latin

Etymology

From ampliō (“I extend, ennoble, adjourn”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /am.pliˈaː.ti.oː/, [ämplʲiˈäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /am.pliˈat.t͡si.o/, [ämpliˈät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ampliātiō f (genitive ampliātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of extending, enlarging.
2. (law) A deferring of the decision of the judge.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ampliātiō	ampliātiōnēs
genitive	ampliātiōnis	ampliātiōnum
dative	ampliātiōnī	ampliātiōnibus
accusative	ampliātiōnem	ampliātiōnēs
ablative	ampliātiōne	ampliātiōnibus
vocative	ampliātiō	ampliātiōnēs

Related terms

• ampliō

Descendants

• → Dutch: ampliatie
• English: ampliatio
• Portuguese: ampliação

References

• “ampliatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ampliatio 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)
• ampliatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ampliatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ampliatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “ampliatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin