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apologia

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See also: apología

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, speech in defense of a position). Doublet of apology.

Pronunciation

Noun

apologia (plural apologias or apologiae)

  1. A written defense of a position or belief.
    Synonyms: apology, apologism
    • 1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Preface:
      Although I've enumerated some of the academic traditions and debates that have animated this book, it is not my purpose to offer a full apologia in these brief pages.
    • 2007 November 4, Stephen L. Carter, “Almost a Gentleman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      “Gone With the Wind” was published in 1936, and despite heroic efforts over the last seven decades to transform it into something else, the novel stands as an apologia for the Old South — []
    • 2024 March 16, Chris Power, “Unfinished business”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 11:
      The apologia his [Gabriel García Márquez] sons contribute at the beginning of the book is unconvincing, and their final excuse is particularly hard to swallow: []

Translations

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English apologia), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología). Contains the suffix -logia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑpoˌloɡiɑ/, [ˈɑ̝po̞ˌlo̞ɡiɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -oɡiɑ
  • Syllabification(key): a‧po‧lo‧gi‧a
  • Hyphenation(key): apo‧logia

Noun

apologia

  1. apologia

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Further reading

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Latin apologia (apology), from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, a speech made in defense of something). Doublet of apologi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /apoˈloɡia̯/
  • Rhymes: -ɡia̯, -ia̯, -a
  • Hyphenation: apo‧lo‧gia

Noun

apologia (plural apologia-apologia)

  1. confession, disclosure of one's sins
  2. (Catholicism) apology (formal justification, defence)

Further reading

Italian

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek + -logia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.po.loˈd͡ʒi.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: a‧po‧lo‧gì‧a

Noun

apologia f (plural apologie)

  1. apology, apologia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apologíā, "a speech made in defense of something").

Pronunciation

Noun

apologia f (genitive apologiae); first declension

  1. a defense, apology

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Albanian: apologji
  • Catalan: apologia
  • English: apologia
  • French: apologie (see there for further descendants)
  • Finnish: apologia
  • German: Apologie
  • Indonesian: apologia
  • Italian: apologia
  • Polish: apologia
  • Portuguese: apologia
  • Spanish: apología

References

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Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología). By surface analysis, apo- + -logia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.pɔˈlɔ.ɡja/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔɡja
  • Syllabification: a‧po‧lo‧gia

Noun

apologia f

  1. (literary) apology (defence of some belief)
    Synonym: apologetyka

Declension

adjective

Further reading

  • apologia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • apologia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, a speech in defence). By surface analysis, apo- + -logia.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧po‧lo‧gi‧a

Noun

apologia f (plural apologias)

  1. apology (formal justification, defence)
  2. (by extension) endorsement, defence, commendation
    Ele fez apologia ao nazismoHe endorsed nazism
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