lucus a non lucendo

短语

[拉]矛盾的字源说, 不合逻辑的推理, 不通的话

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    A form of illogical argument asserting that two things are related because they have opposite significations.

词源

From Latin lūcus ā nōn lūcendō, literally "a grove from not shining", referring to Roman rhetorician Quintilian's assertion, in his Institutio Oratoria, that Latin lūcus (“grove”) derived from lūceō (“to shine”), because groves were dark places and did not shine.

来源：wiktionary