different between amphibology vs amphibologia

English

Alternative forms

• amphibologie (obsolete)

Etymology

From French amphibologie, from late Latin amphibologia, earlier amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /amf??b?l?d?i/

Noun

amphibology (countable and uncountable, plural amphibologies)

1. (archaic) Amphiboly.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.133:

     In Athens men learn'd […] to resolve a sophisticall argument, and to confound the imposture and amphibologie of words, captiously enterlaced together […].

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 10,^[1]

     […] there are but two [fallacies] worthy our notation; and unto which the rest may be referred: that is the fallacie of Æquivocation and Amphibologie; which conclude from the ambiguity of some one word, or the ambiguous syntaxis of many put together.

English

Etymology

From Latin amphibologia, alternative form of amphibolia (“ambiguity”).

Noun

amphibologia (usually uncountable, plural amphibologias)

1. (rhetoric) Ambiguity of grammatical structure.

Related terms

• amphibology
• amphiboly

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (amphibología).

Noun

amphibologia f (genitive amphibologiae); first declension

1. (rhetoric) amphibologia

   Synonym: amphibolia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: amphibologia
• Spanish: anfibología