apodixis

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis). Doublet of policy.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /æpə(ʊ)ˈdɪksɪs/, /æpə(ʊ)ˈdaɪksɪs/

Noun

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apodixis

  1. Full demonstration or showing; absolute and incontrovertible proof.
    • 1647, George Buck, History of Richard III:
      ... this [bold assertion of defiance] might taste of a desperate will, if he had not afterwards given an apodixis in the battle ...
    • 1989, Walter Nash, Rhetoric: The Wit of Persuasion:
      Pythagoras, engaged in showing that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides, is committed to apodeixis; Mark Anthony, arguing that the demonstrable generosity and benevolence of Caesar towards the people of Rome showed him to be a most unlikely candidate for the character of an ambitious tyrant, resorts to pistis, argument on the grounds of probability.

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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apodīxis f (genitive apodīxis or apodīxeōs or apodīxios); third declension

  1. (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

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Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
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

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  • 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