different between appositio vs apposition

English

Etymology

From Latin

Noun

appositio (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) Addition of an element not syntactically required for purpose of description or explanation.

See also

• parenthetical
• parenthesis

Finnish

Noun

appositio

1. (grammar) apposition
2. (rhetoric) appositio

Declension

Derived terms

• (grammar): appositioattribuutti

Latin

Etymology

From app?n? +? -ti?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ap.po?si.ti.o?/, [äp???s??t?io?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap.po?si.t?si.o/, [?p???s?i?t??s?i?]

Noun

appositi? f (genitive appositi?nis); third declension

1. apposition

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• appositio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• appositio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• appositio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle English apposicioun, from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositi?, past participle of app?nere (“to put near”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æp??z??n?/

Noun

apposition (countable and uncountable, plural appositions)

1. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.

   Synonym: parathesis
2. (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
3. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
4. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
5. (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
6. (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
7. A public disputation by scholars.
8. (Britain) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.

Translations

Further reading

• apposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

apposition

1. Genitive singular form of appositio.

French

Etymology

From Latin appositi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.po.zi.sj??/

Noun

apposition f (plural appositions)

1. apposition

Related terms

• apposer

Further reading

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