apófase

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Via Late Latin apophasis from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis, “denial, negation”) from ἀπο- (apo-, “away, from, off”) +‎ φάσις (phásis, “statement, proposition”) from φημί (phēmí, “to speak”) from Proto-Hellenic *pʰā́mā from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂; whence via Proto-Italic *fāōr, *fāmā comes Latin fārī, fāma, cognate to fala, Spanish fama, English fame. === Pronunciation === === Noun === apófase f (plural apófases) (rhetoric) apophasis (allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned) (theology) apophatism (a belief, a theory on approaching knowledge of God in a negative way) Synonym: apofatismo === Further reading === “apófase”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “apófase”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026