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.
   • 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 0362-4331:

     “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 — […]

• apology
• apologism

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpoloɡiɑ/, [ˈɑpo̞ˌlo̞ɡiɑ]
• Rhymes: -oɡiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): a‧po‧lo‧gi‧a

apologia

1. apologia

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, first-person possessive apologiaku, second-person possessive apologiamu, third-person possessive apologianya)

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

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

From Ancient Greek +‎ -logia.

• 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").

apologia f (genitive apologiae); first declension

1. a defense, apology

First-declension noun.

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

Borrowed 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

apologia f (plural apologias)

1. apology (formal justification, defence)