different between apotheosize vs apotheosis

English

Alternative forms

• apotheosise

Etymology

From apotheosis +? -ize

Verb

apotheosize (third-person singular simple present apotheosizes, present participle apotheosizing, simple past and past participle apotheosized)

1. (transitive) To deify, to convert into a god.
2. (transitive) To exalt, glorify.

Related terms

• apotheosis

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin apothe?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)) + -??? (-sis, “forms noun of action”). Surface analysis apo- +? theo- +? -sis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p??.i????.s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p??.?i?o?.s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

apotheosis (countable and uncountable, plural apotheoses)

1. The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.

   Synonym: deification

   • 1986, SRF Price, Rituals and Power, p. 75:

   • 2002, CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire, p. 176:

2. Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.

   Synonyms: exaltation, glorification

   • 1974, Per Lord Hailsham, Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24:

3. A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).

   Synonyms: apex, paragon

   • 1925, William Carlos Williams, 'Edgar Allan Poe', In The American Grain, 1990, p. 232:
4. The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).

   Synonyms: apex, climax, culmination, peak, pinnacle

5. (loosely) Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.

   Synonym: death

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

6. (psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.

Derived terms

• apotheosize
• apotheotic

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• apoth. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.po.t?e?o?.sis/, [äp?t??e?o?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.te?o.sis/, [?p?t?????s?is]

Noun

apothe?sis f (genitive apothe?sis); third declension

1. apotheosis, deification

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• apotheosis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apotheosis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• apotheosis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apotheosis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin