parabola

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.

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

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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

• circle
• conic section
• ellipse
• hyperbola

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

Borrowed from Latin parabola.

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

parabola f

1. parabola (geometry)
2. parable

• “parabola”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “parabola”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• Homophones: parabolas, parabolât

parabola

1. third-person singular past historic of paraboler

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

parabola (plural parabolák)

1. (geometry) parabola

• 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

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

parabola (plural parabola-parabola)

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

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

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

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

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

• parabolico

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

parabola

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

• parabolē

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

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

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

First-declension noun.

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

• parabolicē
• parabolō

• “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)

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parabola

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Learned borrowing from Latin parabola. Doublet of parol.

• IPA^(key): /pa.raˈbɔ.la/

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

parabola f

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

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

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

paràbola f (Cyrillic spelling пара̀бола)

1. (geometry) parabola
2. parable

Derived from Latin parabola.

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parabola f (relational adjective parabolický, diminutive parabolka)

1. (geometry) parabola
2. parable

• “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, 2003–2025