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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'erotesis' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions erotesis noun (eroteses) (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer. 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p. 50: :he would sometimes break off in a sudden and spirited E<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">PIPHONEMA</span>, or rather E<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">ROTESIS</span>, ... and demand it categorically of his antagonist, Whether he would take it upon him to say, had he ever remember'd, Etymology: From Latin, erotesis, from Ancient Greek (polytonic, á), from (polytonic, á) "to question".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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