apodixis
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis). Doublet of policy.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]apodixis
- 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.
Translations
[edit]demonstration
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Latin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) 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 |
---|---|---|
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
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