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語源

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

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌæp.əˈloʊ.d͡ʒi.ə/

名詞

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, →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 section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, 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: […]

関連する語

発音

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

名詞

apologia f (genitive apologiae); first declension

1. a defense, apology

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• → 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

参照

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