Aporia

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aporia"

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aporia and Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía, “difficulty; impossibility”). Comprised of ἄπορος (áporos, “passageless”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā). Further from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πόρος (póros, “passage”), the latter of which is from πείρω (peírō, “to pierce; to run through”). From the roots of Proto-Hellenic *péryō and Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to pass; to go forth”).

Proper noun

Aporia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Pieridae – certain pierid butterflies.

See also

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