aphorismus

From Latin aphorismus, though the meaning is closer to Ancient Greek ᾰ̓φορῐσμός (ăphorĭsmós).

aphorismus (plural aphorismi)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech that questions whether a word is properly used, as in "How can you call yourself a man?".

• aphorismos

From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓φορῐσμός (ăphorĭsmós).

aphorismus m (genitive aphorismī); second declension

1. aphorism

Second-declension noun.

• Portuguese: aforismo
• Spanish: aforismo

• "aphorismus", 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)