ἀπολογία
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- a speech made in defense of something
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek λόγος (word, speech, reason, account, study, discourse, oration, utterance, narrative, calculation, quote, story, ratio, explanation, debate, computation, reasoning, reckoning).
Origin
Ancient Greek
λόγος
Gloss
word, speech, reason, account, study, discourse, oration, utterance, narrative, calculation, quote, story, ratio, explanation, debate, computation, reasoning, reckoning
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
辞
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- apologetics English
- apologia English
- apologian English
- logo- English
- logolepsy English
- logopedics English
- logorrhea English
- logos English
- logotype English
- protologism English
- apologia Latin
- collega Latin
- logarithmus Latin
- loquor Latin
- apologie French
- апология Russian
- логос Russian
- -logía Spanish, Castilian
- apología Spanish, Castilian
- neologismo Spanish, Castilian
- -λογία Ancient Greek
- διαλογίζομαι Ancient Greek
- εὐλογέω Ancient Greek
- εὐλογία Ancient Greek
- θεολόγος Ancient Greek
- λογίζομαι Ancient Greek
- λογικός Ancient Greek
- λογογράφος Ancient Greek
- λογομαχία Ancient Greek
- λόγος Ancient Greek
- παιδείᾱ Ancient Greek
- πρόλογος Ancient Greek
- τριλογία Ancient Greek
- ἀνθολογία Ancient Greek
- ἀνθρωπόλογος Ancient Greek
- ἀντίλογος Ancient Greek
- ἀξιόλογος Ancient Greek
- ἀστρολογία Ancient Greek
- ἐπίλογος Ancient Greek
- ἠθολογία Ancient Greek
- ἠθολόγος Ancient Greek
- ὁμολογέω Ancient Greek
- *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- logaritme Norwegian Bokmål
- logo Norwegian Bokmål
- Logos Portuguese
- logaritme Norwegian Nynorsk
- logo Norwegian Nynorsk
- logos Czech
- صِين Arabic
- apologija Serbo-Croatian
- логос Serbo-Croatian
- neoloxismo Galician
- ornitoloxía Galician
- απολογία Greek (modern)
- λόγος Greek (modern)
- apologia Indonesian
- arkeologi Indonesian
- apologiar Ido
- апологет Bulgarian
- апология Bulgarian
- apologie Middle French
- ეპისტემოლოგია Georgian
- epistemolojia Swahili
- epistemalaji Jamaican Creole