apologue

English

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

apologue (countable and uncountable, plural apologues)

A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
  "Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.
- 1891, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture, page 409:
  […] but though the mythic hero may thus be made to figure in a moral apologue, an imagination so little in keeping with his unethic nature jars upon the reader's mind.
(rhetoric) The use of fable to persuade the audience.

a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects

Bashkir: мәҫәл (məśəl)
Catalan: apòleg (ca) m
Czech: bajka (cs) f
French: apologue (fr) m
German: Lehrfabel f, Fabel (de) f
Irish: apalóg f, fabhalscéal m, fáithscéal m, uirscéal m
Italian: apologo (it) m
Latin: apologus m
Polish: apolog (pl) m
Portuguese: apólogo m
Russian: ба́сня (ru) f (básnja), нравоучи́тельная ба́сня f (nravoučítelʹnaja básnja), аполо́г (ru) m (apológ)
Spanish: apólogo m

rhetoric: use of fable to persuade the audience

apologue m (plural apologues)