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apologia
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See also: apología
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “speech in defense of a position”). Doublet of apology.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌæp.əˈloʊ.d͡ʒi.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
apologia (plural apologias or apologiae)
- A written defense of a position or belief.
- 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: […]
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Translations
apology — see apology
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Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see English apologia), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología). Contains the suffix -logia.
Pronunciation
Noun
apologia
Declension
Further reading
- “apologia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
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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
Noun
apologia (plural apologia-apologia)
- confession, disclosure of one's sins
- (Catholicism) apology (formal justification, defence)
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Further reading
- “apologia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek + -logia.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ia
Noun
apologia f (plural apologie)
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apologíā, "a speech made in defense of something").
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.pɔˈɫɔ.ɡi.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.poˈlɔː.d͡ʒi.a]
Noun
apologia f (genitive apologiae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “apologia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología). By surface analysis, apo- + -logia.
Pronunciation
Noun
apologia f
- (literary) apology (defence of some belief)
- Synonym: apologetyka
Declension
Declension of apologia
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adjective
verb
Further reading
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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)
- apology (formal justification, defence)
- (by extension) endorsement, defence, commendation
- Ele fez apologia ao nazismo ― He endorsed nazism
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