parabola

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παραβάλλω (parabállō, “I set side by side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”). Doublet of parable, parole, and palaver.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pərăb'ələ, IPA^(key): /pəˈɹæbələ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

parabola (plural parabolas or parabolae or parabolæ)

1. (geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
2. (rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.

   Synonym: parable

Translations

See also

• circle
• conic section
• ellipse
• hyperbola

Further reading

• Silva Rhetoricae
• Parabola (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parabola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

Noun

parabola f

1. parabola (geometry)
2. parable

Declension

Further reading

• parabola in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• parabola in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: parabolas, parabolât

Verb

parabola

1. third-person singular past historic of paraboler

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

Noun

parabola (plural parabolák)

1. (geometry) parabola

Declension

Further reading

• parabola in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabel.

Noun

parabola (first-person possessive parabolaku, second-person possessive parabolamu, third-person possessive parabolanya)

1. (geometry) parabola, the conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
2. (colloquial) satellite dish (a parabolic antenna)

   Synonyms: antena parabola, antena satelit

3. (by metonymy, colloquial) satellite television (subscription)

   Synonym: televisi satelit

Further reading

• “parabola” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈra.bo.la/
• Rhymes: -abola
• Hyphenation: pa‧rà‧bo‧la

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parola, which was inherited. Mathematical sense taken from New Latin or Greek.

Noun

parabola f (plural parabole)

1. (mathematics) parabola

   Synonym: curva

2. (by extension) course

   Synonyms: andamento, percorso

3. parable
4. satellite dish

   Synonyms: parabolica, antenna parabolica

Derived terms

• parabolico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

parabola

1. inflection of parabolare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Alternative forms

• parabolē

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈra.bo.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈra.bo.la/,

Noun

parabola f (genitive parabolae); first declension

1. A comparison, illustration, likeness
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin) An allegorical relation, parable; proverb; taunting speech or any speech.
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.1.6:

     animadvertet parabolam et interpretātiōnem, verba sapientum et aenigmata eōrum

     He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

3. (Medieval Latin, Late Latin) word

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (comparison): aequiparantia, collātiō, comparātiō, similitūdō

Derived terms

• parabolicē
• parabolō

Descendants

References

• “parabola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• parabola in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

parabola

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin parabola. Doublet of parol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.raˈbɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

Noun

parabola f

1. (geometry) parabola
2. (narratology, rhetoric) parable

Declension

Further reading

• parabola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• parabola in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /parǎbola/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

Noun

paràbola f (Cyrillic spelling пара̀бола)

1. (geometry) parabola
2. parable

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Latin parabola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

parabola f (genitive singular paraboly, nominative plural paraboly, genitive plural parabol, declension pattern of žena)

1. parabola (geometry)
2. parable

Declension

References

• “parabola”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024