aetiologia

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English[edit]

Examples (rhetoric)

He could become President, for he was born here.

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from Latin aetiologia, from Ancient Greek αἰτιολογία (aitiología). Doublet of aetiology.

Noun[edit]

aetiologia (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) Attributing a cause for a statement or claim made, often as a simple relative clause of explanation.

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