apologia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “speech in defense of a position”). Doublet of apology.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæp.əˈloʊ.d͡ʒi.ə/

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apologia (plural apologias or apologiae)

1. A written defense of a position or belief.

   Synonyms: apology, apologism

   • 1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Preface:

     Although I've enumerated some of the academic traditions and debates that have animated this book, it is not my purpose to offer a full apologia in these brief pages.

   • 2007 November 4, Stephen L. Carter, “Almost a Gentleman”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “Gone With the Wind” was published in 1936, and despite heroic efforts over the last seven decades to transform it into something else, the novel stands as an apologia for the Old South — […]

   • 2024 March 16, Chris Power, “Unfinished business”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 11:

     The apologia his [Gabriel García Márquez] sons contribute at the beginning of the book is unconvincing, and their final excuse is particularly hard to swallow: […]

Internationalism (see English apologia), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología). Contains the suffix -logia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpoˌloɡiɑ/, [ˈɑ̝po̞ˌlo̞ɡiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -oɡiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): a‧po‧lo‧gi‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): apo‧logia

apologia

1. apologia

• “apologia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From Latin apologia (“apology”), from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “a speech made in defense of something”). Doublet of apologi.

• IPA^(key): /apoˈloɡia̯/
• Rhymes: -ɡia̯, -ia̯, -a
• Hyphenation: apo‧lo‧gia

apologia (plural apologia-apologia)

1. confession, disclosure of one's sins
2. (Catholicism) apology (formal justification, defence)

• “apologia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Ancient Greek +‎ -logia.

• Rhymes: -ia

• IPA^(key): /a.po.loˈd͡ʒi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: a‧po‧lo‧gì‧a

apologia f (plural apologie)

1. apology, apologia

• apologetico
• apologista

From Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apologíā, "a speech made in defense of something").

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.pɔˈɫɔ.ɡi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.poˈlɔː.d͡ʒi.a]

apologia f (genitive apologiae); first declension

1. a defense, apology

First-declension noun.

• → Albanian: apologji
• → Catalan: apologia
• → English: apologia
• → French: apologie (see there for further descendants)
• → Finnish: apologia
• → German: Apologie
• → Indonesian: apologia
• → Italian: apologia
• → Polish: apologia
• → Portuguese: apologia
• → Spanish: apología

• “apologia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Learned borrowing from Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología). By surface analysis, apo- +‎ -logia.

• IPA^(key): /a.pɔˈlɔ.ɡja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɡja
• Syllabification: a‧po‧lo‧gia

apologia f

1. (literary) apology (defence of some belief)

   Synonym: apologetyka

• apologia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• apologia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “a speech in defence”). By surface analysis, apo- +‎ -logia.

• Hyphenation: a‧po‧lo‧gi‧a

apologia f (plural apologias)

1. apology (formal justification, defence)
2. (by extension) endorsement, defence, commendation

   Ele fez apologia ao nazismo ― He endorsed nazism