affirmatio

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin affirmātiō (“affirmation; confirmation”). Doublet of affirmation. === Noun === affirmatio (uncountable) (rhetoric) Making a statement as if it were in response to a question or were in dispute, especially when it is not. === See also === cataphasis == Latin == === Alternative forms === adfīrmātiō === Etymology === From affirmō (“affirm, assert”) +‎ -tiō. === Noun === affirmātiō f (genitive affirmātiōnis); third declension affirmation, declaration, assertion confirmation ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== affirmō ==== Descendants ==== English: affirmation French: affirmation Italian: affermazione Portuguese: afirmação Romanian: afirmație Spanish: afirmación === References === “affirmatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “affirmatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.