apologetisk
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Danish
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Adjective
[edit ]apologetisk (neuter apologetisk, plural and definite singular attributive apologetiske )
- (theology ) apologetic (referring to the defense of the faith)
Swedish
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Latin apologeticus , from Ancient Greek ἀπολογητικός (apologētikós). First attested in 1816.
Adjective
[edit ]apologetisk
- (theology ) apologetic (relating to apologetics )
- 1909, Ruth Almén, "Okänd mästare [Unknown Master]", in Egna vägar [Own Ways][1] , Åhlén & Åkerlunds förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 6 September 2025, page 145:
- Munken [...] [läste ett] kapitel ur Augustini stora apologetiska arbete, »De civitate Dei».
- The monk read a chapter from Augustine's great apologetic work, De civitate Dei.
- 1995, Yvonne Maria Werner, "Monsignore David Assarsson: katolsk präst och skån(ing) [Monsignor David Assarsson: A Catholic priest and a Scanian]", in Signum[2] , number 5, archived from the original on 6 September 2025:
- [Den katolska tidskriften] Credo hade [...] en utpräglat apologetisk karaktär.
- The Catholic magazine Credo had a distinctly apologetic character.
Declension
[edit ]| Indefinite | positive | comparative | superlative1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| common singular | apologetisk | — | — |
| neuter singular | apologetiskt | — | — |
| plural | apologetiska | — | — |
| masculine plural2 | apologetiska | — | — |
| Definite | positive | comparative | superlative |
| masculine singular3 | apologetiska | — | — |
| all | apologetiska | — | — |
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
Related terms
[edit ]References
[edit ]- "apologetisk", in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)