apologist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Hellenic *apó

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πό (ăpó)

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πο- (ăpo-)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos

Proto-Hellenic *lógos

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología)bor.

Ecclesiastical Latin apologialbor.

French apologiebor.

English apology

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English apologist

From apology + -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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Noun

apologist (plural apologists)

1. (loosely) One who makes an apology.
   1. (usually) One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
      • 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 430:

        […] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.

      • 2019 October 15, Aleksandar Hemon, “‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 April 2020:

        A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.

   2. (uncommon) Synonym of apologizer.

Derived terms

• apolo10
• counter-apologist
• Islamopologist
• Mopologist

Related terms

• apologete
• apologetic
• apologeticism
• apologetics
• apologia
• apologism
• apologize, apologise
• apologizer, apologiser
• apology

Translations

one who makes an apology

• Catalan: apologeta (ca) m or f, apologista m or f
• Danish: undskylder c

one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ջատագով (hy) (ǰatagov)
• Belarusian: апалаге́т m (apalahjét), апалаге́тка f (apalahjétka), абаро́нца (abarónca), змага́р m (zmahár), змага́рка f (zmahárka), прыхі́льнік m (pryxílʹnik), прыхі́льніца f (pryxílʹnica)
• Bulgarian: апологе́т (bg) m (apologét), апологе́тка f (apologétka)
• Catalan: apologista m or f, apologeta (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 辯護士 / 辩护士 (zh) (biànhùshì)

• Czech: apologeta m, apologetka f
• Danish: forsvarer c, apologet c, skønmaler c
• Dutch: apologeet (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: apologeet (et)
• Finnish: apologeetta (fi)
• French: apologiste (fr) m or f
• German: Apologet (de) m, Apologetin f
• Hungarian: apologéta (hu)
• Indonesian: apologet
• Italian: apologista (it) m or f, apologeta m or f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: apologeta (pl) m, apologetka f, apologetyk (pl) m (dated)
• Portuguese: apologista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: apologet (ro) m, apologetă f
• Russian: апологе́т (ru) m (apologét), апологе́тка f (apologétka), защи́тник (ru) m (zaščítnik), защи́тница (ru) f (zaščítnica) (каки́х-либо взгля́дов), побо́рник (ru) m (pobórnik), побо́рница (ru) f (pobórnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аполо̀ге̄т m

  Latin: apològēt (sh) m

• Slovak: apologéta m, apologétka f
• Spanish: apologista (es), apologeta
• Swedish: apologet (sv) c
• Turkish: apolojist (tr)
• Ukrainian: апологе́т (uk) m (apolohét), апологе́тка f (apolohétka), захисни́к m (zaxysnýk), захисни́ця f (zaxysnýcja), побо́рник m (pobórnyk), побо́рниця f (pobórnycja)

References

• “apologist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French apologiste.

Noun

apologist m (plural apologiști)

1. apologist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	apologist	apologistul	apologiști	apologiștii
genitive-dative	apologist	apologistului	apologiști	apologiștilor
vocative	apologistule		apologiștilor