apodixis

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Examples (rhetoric)
Everyone knows that global warming causes more extreme weather.

apodixis

1. (rhetoric) Supporting a proposition by reference to common knowledge.

Translations

proposition referencing common knowledge

• Portuguese: apodixe f

Latin

Alternative forms

• appodixis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.poˈdiːk.sis/, [äpɔˈd̪iːks̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.poˈdik.sis/, [äpoˈd̪iksis]

Noun

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

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

• “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