apodixis

Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis)

• IPA^(key): /æpə(ʊ)ˈdɪksɪs/, /æpə(ʊ)ˈdaɪksɪs/

apodixis

1. (rhetoric) Supporting a proposition by reference to common knowledge.

• appodixis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.poˈdiːk.sis/, [äpɔˈd̪iːks̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.poˈdik.sis/, [äpoˈd̪iksis]

apodīxis f (genitive apodīxis or apodīxeōs or apodīxios); third declension

1. (post-Classical) proof, demonstration
   • 5th century, Pseudo-Ambrose, Epistolae, section 1.10:

     Crudelissima omnium feminarum, in filium meum voluisti apodixin tuae artis magicae demonstrare?

     Cruellest of all women, did you desire to demonstrate the proof of your magical art upon my son?

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• “apodixis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apodixis 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)
• apodixis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• apodixis in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “apodixis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 49