apologue

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
2. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The use of fable to persuade the audience.

Concepts

apologue

fable

allégorie

parabole

Synonymes

fable

allegory

parable

exemplum

fiction

Traductions

apologo

apólogo

Lehrfabel

Apolog

apólogo

fábula

apoloog

faula

Fabel

Gleichnis

belehrende Geschichte

Ermahnung

parler

Märchen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈæpəlɒɡ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ἀπό- (apó-, “off, away from”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). Equivalent to apo- + -logue.