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affirmatio
affirmatio
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Noun
affirmatio (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) Making a statement as if it were in response to a question or were in dispute, especially when it is not.
See also
- cataphasis
Latin
Etymology
From affirmō (“affirm, assert”) + -tiō.
Noun
affirmātiō f (genitive affirmātiōnis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | affirmātiō | affirmātiōnēs |
| genitive | affirmātiōnis | affirmātiōnum |
| dative | affirmātiōnī | affirmātiōnibus |
| accusative | affirmātiōnem | affirmātiōnēs |
| ablative | affirmātiōne | affirmātiōnibus |
| vocative | affirmātiō | affirmātiōnēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: affirmation
- Portuguese: afirmação
References
- affirmatio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “affirmatio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.