syllogismus

See also: Syllogismus

English

Examples
No worthy leader would avoid wartime military service. You used family influence to get into the National Guard. (Therefore, you are not a worthy leader.)

Etymology

From Latin syllogismus (“syllogism”), from Ancient Greek συλλογισμός (sullogismós). Doublet of syllogism.

Noun

syllogismus (usually uncountable, plural syllogismi)

1. (rhetoric) Omission of the conclusion of a syllogistic argument.

See also

• enthymeme

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συλλογισμός (sullogismós, “inference, conclusion”).

Noun

syllogismus m (genitive syllogismī); second declension

1. (logic) syllogism

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	syllogismus	syllogismī
genitive	syllogismī	syllogismōrum
dative	syllogismō	syllogismīs
accusative	syllogismum	syllogismōs
ablative	syllogismō	syllogismīs
vocative	syllogisme	syllogismī

References

• “syllogismus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• syllogismus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.