apocatástase

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin apocatastasis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκατάστασις (apokatástasis).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.po.kaˈtas.ta.zi/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.po.kaˈtaʃ.ta.zi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.po.kaˈtas.ta.ze/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.pu.kɐˈtaʃ.tɐ.zɨ/

  • Hyphenation: a‧po‧ca‧tás‧ta‧se

Noun

apocatástase f (uncountable)

  1. (theology) apocatastasis (the doctrine that an apocalypse will lead to the remaking of the world rather than a Final Judgment)
    • 1979, Mircea Eliade, Zahar Editores, Ferreiros e Alquimistas‎[1], page 163:
      A finalidade última do opus é a apocatástase, a Salvação cósmica: é por esse motivo que o Lapis philosophorum é identificado com Cristo.
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References

  • Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (1986) Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa‎[2] (in Portuguese), Editora Nova Fronteira, →ISBN, page 143
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