This usage has its origins primarily in the work of Friedrich Schlegel and other early 19th-century German Romantics and in Søren Kierkegaard's analysis of ...

15 окт. 2021 г. · 1620s, "pertaining to irony," from Late Latin ironicus, from Greek eironikos "dissembling, putting on a feigned ignorance," from eironeia (see irony).

14 нояб. 2022 г. · And it was invented by one guy: an English bishop and classical scholar named Connop Thirlwell, which seems like a typo but isn't. His 1833 ...

OED's earliest evidence for ironic is from 1614, in the writing of William Cowper, bishop of Galloway. ironic is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ironicus ...

1 нояб. 2024 г. · The term irony has its roots in the Greek comic character Eiron, a clever underdog who by his wit repeatedly triumphs over the boastful ...

irony is of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin.

16 нояб. 2024 г. · The word irony has come to be applied to events that are merely curious or coincidental, and while some feel this is an incorrect use of the ...

28 сент. 2017 г. · 1500, from Latin ironia, from Greek eironeia "dissimulation, assumed ignorance," from eiron "dissembler," perhaps related to eirein "to speak," ...

17 дек. 2020 г. · Deriving from the ancient Greek term eironeia, which originally referred to lying, irony became a complex philosophical and rhetorical term in ...