amphibolia

From Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”), from ἀμφίβολος (amphíbolos, “ambiguous, doubtful”).

amphibolia (uncountable)

1. Ambiguity in writing; amphiboly.
   • 1859 June, “Examination Papers”, in The English Journal of Education, volume 13, page 193:

     Give instances of amphibolia, and illustrate the double meaning of words arising by accident, by first and second intention, and by analogy.

   • 2004, Document, Various Specification - Issue 8, page 27:

     The statement contains the error of amphibolia and as a result the expert drew two opinions, one of which was unnecessary.

   • 2018, Michele Kennerly, Damien Smith Pfister, Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks, page 36:

     One is not necessarily a likeness of the other, nor an elevated ideal from the base; rather both sides coexist or comingle as an ambiguous and ambivalent weave ina tropical pattern of amphibolia.

From Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”), from ἀμφίβολος (amphíbolos, “ambiguous, doubtful”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /am.pʰiˈbo.li.a/, [ämpʰɪˈbɔlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /am.fiˈbo.li.a/, [ämfiˈbɔːliä]

amphibolia f (genitive amphiboliae); first declension

1. (rhetoric) ambiguity, double meaning

First-declension noun.

• “amphibolia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amphibolia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers