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amphibologia

amphibologia

English

Examples

They are frying chickens might mean
Those are chickens for frying OR
Those people are cooking chickens by frying them.

Noun

amphibologia (usually uncountable, plural amphibologias)

  1. (rhetoric) Ambiguity of grammatical structure.

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Latin

Etymology

From Greek ἀμφιβολογία (amphibología).

Noun

amphibologia f (genitive amphibologiae); first declension

  1. grammatical structure, which can be understood in two different ways. Synonym: amphibolia.

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative amphibologia amphibologiae
genitive amphibologiae amphibologiārum
dative amphibologiae amphibologiīs
accusative amphibologiam amphibologiās
ablative amphibologiā amphibologiīs
vocative amphibologia amphibologiae