aetiologia

English
Examples (rhetoric)

He could become President, for he was born here.

Etymology

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

Noun

aetiologia (uncountable)

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

References
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