different between apologue vs apologer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ???????? (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ???- (apó-, “off, away from”) + ????? (lógos, “speech”).

Noun

apologue (countable and uncountable, plural apologues)

1. a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:

     "Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.

2. (rhetoric) use of fable to persuade the audience

Related terms

• apologetic

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin apologus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (apólogos).

Noun

apologue m (plural apologues)

1. apologue

Further reading

• “apologue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From apologue +? -er.

Noun

apologer (plural apologers)

1. (obsolete) A teller of apologues.

Latin

Verb

apologer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of apolog?