different between axiom vs apothegm

English

Etymology

From Middle French axiome in the 15th century, from Latin axi?ma (“axiom; principle”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (axí?ma, “that which is thought to fit, a requisite, that which a pupil is required to know beforehand, a self-evident principle”), from ????? (axió?, “to think fit or worthy, to require, to demand”), from ????? (áxios, “fit, worthy”, literally “weighing as much as; of like value”), from ??? (ág?, “I drive”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?aks.?.?m/
• (General American) enPR: ?k's??m, IPA^(key): /?æks.i.?m/
• Hyphenation: ax?i?om

Noun

axiom (plural axioms or axiomata) (the latter is becoming less common and is sometimes considered archaic)

1. (philosophy) A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
2. (logic, mathematics, proof theory) A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context).
3. An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.

Synonyms

• (philosophy, mathematics): axioma (now rare)
• (logic, mathematics): postulate

Hypernyms

• (logic): well-formed formula, wff, WFF

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): axiom of choice, axiom of infinity, axiom of pairing, axiom of power set, axiom of regularity, axiom of union, completeness axiom, parallel axiom

Holonyms

• (logic): formal system

Derived terms

• axiomatic
• axiomatical
• axiomatically
• axiomatise, axiomatize
• axiomatisation, axiomatization

Translations

See also

References

• axiom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• axiom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• axiom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• amoxi

Czech

Noun

axiom m

1. axiom

Derived terms

• axiom výb?ru m

Related terms

• axiomatický
• axiomatizovat
• axiomatizace

Swedish

Noun

axiom n

1. axiom

Declension

Related terms

• axiomatisk

English

Alternative forms

• apophthegm

Etymology

From French apophthegme or Medieval Latin apothegma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apóphthegma), from ???????????? (apophthéngomai, “speak out”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?p??-th?m?, IPA^(key): /?æ.p?.??m/
• Homophones: apothem, apophthegm

Noun

apothegm (plural apothegms)

1. A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim. [from mid-16th c.]
   • 1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue: De?cribed, in the Life of Merington Latroon, A Witty Extravagant, Being a Compleat Hi?tory of the Mo?t Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes, Henry Marsh, page 355,

     Every gla?s of wine, or bit almo?t, that I committed to my mouth, ?he u?hered thither with ?ome Apothegm or other: the whole ?eries, indeed, of her di?cour?e, was compo?ed of nothing but rea?on or wit, which made me admire her; which ?he ea?ily under?tood, I perceived by her ?miles, when ?he ob?erved me gaping, as it were, when ?he ?poke, as if I would have eaten up her Words.

   • 1920, E. F. Benson, Queen Lucia, George H. Doran Company, pages 10–11

     "You are too wonderful!" he would say. "How do you find time for everything?"

     She rejoined with the apophthegm that made the rounds of Riseholme next day.

     "My dear, it is just busy people that have time for everything."

   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1998, Chapter 8,

     For the gods have withheld from the barbarians the light of discretion, as that their poetry is not, like ours, full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims, but is all of love and war.

   • 2008, Dave Duncan, The Alchemist’s Apprentice, Ace Books, ?ISBN, page 114,

     Which means roughly that business keeps one safe from love—ominous talk when one’s lover is a courtesan. I hoped that it was just another literary conceit I ought to know. (It is, I later learned, an apothegm by Ovid.)

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:saying.

Translations