apophasis
English
/əˈpɒfəsɪs/
noun
Definitions
- (rhetoric) An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.
- (Christianity) A process of arriving at knowledge by statements of denial; particularly, developing a concept of God through negative assertions about his nature.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin apophasis derived from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (denial, negation), φάσις (appearance, statement, proposition, an appearance, utterance) derived from Proto-Hellenic *pʰā́mā derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂, *bʰeh₂- (speak), *bʰeh₂- (speak, shine, say, glow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰeh₂-
Gloss
speak, shine, say, glow
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
話
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -phasia English
- phone English
- phonetics English
- phonology English
- apophasis Latin
- confessus Latin
- confābulātiōnem Latin
- cōnfābulārī Latin
- fabulosus Latin
- facundus Latin
- fata Latin
- fatum Latin
- focus Latin
- fābula Latin
- fābulōsus Latin
- fātum Latin
- fētiālēs Latin
- infans Latin
- phasis Latin
- professio Latin
- professiō Latin
- professor Latin
- professus Latin
- profiteor Latin
- profitērī Latin
- īnfāntem, īnfāns Latin
- fase Italian
- fonologia Italian
- fonosemantica Italian
- fonosimbolo Italian
- fotogenia Italian
- fotogenicità Italian
- xilofonista Italian
- xilofono Italian
- apophase French
- dysphémisme French
- phase French
- photogénique French
- fase Spanish, Castilian
- habladuría Spanish, Castilian
- xilofonista Spanish, Castilian
- xilófono Spanish, Castilian
- -φωνος Ancient Greek
- -φωνος, φωνή Ancient Greek
- βλασφημέω Ancient Greek
- βλασφημία Ancient Greek
- διαφαίνω Ancient Greek
- εὐφημισμός Ancient Greek
- παμφανόων Ancient Greek
- προφήτης Ancient Greek
- συκοφάντης Ancient Greek
- φάσις Ancient Greek
- φαίνω Ancient Greek
- φαινόμενον Ancient Greek
- φανή Ancient Greek
- φωνέω Ancient Greek
- φωνή Ancient Greek
- φωνήεις Ancient Greek
- φωνητῐκός Ancient Greek
- φώνημα Ancient Greek
- φᾰ́σῐς Ancient Greek
- φᾰντᾰστῐκός Ancient Greek
- φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ Ancient Greek
- ἀπόφασις Ancient Greek
- ἀφασία Ancient Greek
- ἐμφατικός Ancient Greek
- ἐπιφάνεια Ancient Greek
- ἔμφασις Ancient Greek
- ἱεροφάντης Ancient Greek
- *bʰeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂, *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂-, *bʰ-né-h₂-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂-meh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰh₂-new-ti, bʰh₂-n̥w-énti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰh₂wesnós Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰn̥h₂-é-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰoh₂-néh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéh₂meh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéh₂ti Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- bʰeh₂, *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- bʰh₂-sḱéti, *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- fase Norwegian Bokmål
- apófase Portuguese
- fadista Portuguese
- fado Portuguese
- fase Portuguese
- *bannaną Proto-Germanic
- *bannijaną Proto-Germanic
- *bōniz Proto-Germanic
- *bōnō Proto-Germanic
- faza Polish
- fase Norwegian Nynorsk
- भनति Sanskrit
- भान Sanskrit
- भाषति Sanskrit
- भाषते Sanskrit
- भाषा Sanskrit
- fabhalscéal Irish
- fabhalscéalaí Irish
- fabhalscéalaíocht Irish
- banna Old Norse
- bón Old Norse
- *bajьka Proto-Slavic
- fase Catalan, Valencian
- bæn Icelandic
- bón Icelandic
- fase Galician
- απόφαση Greek (modern)
- bahasa Indonesia Indonesian
- ban Middle Dutch
- բառ Old Armenian
- bahasa Malay
- bahasa Malaysia Malay
- bëzej Albanian
- *bōnōn gmw-pro
- *bānos Proto-Celtic
- bōnen Middle Low German
- *bʰaH- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *bʰáHšaH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *fatēōr Proto-Italic
- *fāðlā Proto-Italic
- *fāōr Proto-Italic
- fase Asturian
- enfanter xno
- ἀπόφαση gkm
- *mləspʰāmos Proto-Hellenic
- *pʰáňňō Proto-Hellenic
- *pʰā́mā Proto-Hellenic
- бон Ossetian, Ossetic