παραβολή

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Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 2 February 2014

Etymology

From παραβάλλω (parabállō, “to set side by side”) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.bo.lɛ̌ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.boˈle̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.βoˈli/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.voˈli/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.voˈli/

Noun

παραβολή • (parabolḗ) f (genitive παραβολῆς); first declension

a placing of two things side by side, juxtaposition
comparison, illustration, analogy
parable, proverb
side by side meeting or engagement, broadside
venture
(astronomy) conjunction
(mathematics) division
(geometry) parabola

Declension

First declension of ἡ πᾰρᾰβολή; τῆς πᾰρᾰβολῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰρᾰβολή hē parabolḗ	τὼ πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ tṑ parabolā́	αἱ πᾰρᾰβολαί hai parabolaí
Genitive	τῆς πᾰρᾰβολῆς tês parabolês	τοῖν πᾰρᾰβολαῖν toîn parabolaîn	τῶν πᾰρᾰβολῶν tôn parabolôn
Dative	τῇ πᾰρᾰβολῇ têi parabolêi	τοῖν πᾰρᾰβολαῖν toîn parabolaîn	ταῖς πᾰρᾰβολαῖς taîs parabolaîs
Accusative	τὴν πᾰρᾰβολήν tḕn parabolḗn	τὼ πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ tṑ parabolā́	τᾱ̀ς πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ς tā̀s parabolā́s
Vocative	πᾰρᾰβολή parabolḗ	πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ parabolā́	πᾰρᾰβολαί parabolaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Albanian: parabolë
Bulgarian: парабола (parabola)
Czech: parabola
Danish: parabel, parabol
Dutch: parabool
English: parabola, parabole
German: Parabel
Greek: παραβολή (paravolí)
Hindi: परवलय (paravlay)
Hungarian: parabola
→ Latin: parabola (see there for further descendants)
Polish: parabola
Russian: пара́бола f (parábola)
Serbo-Croatian: paràbola
Serbo-Croatian: пара̀бола
Swedish: parabel
Turkish: parabol
Ukrainian: парабола (parabola)

Further reading

“παραβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“παραβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
παραβολή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G3850 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- comparison idem, page 150.

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ).

Noun

παραβολή • (paravolí) f (plural παραβολές)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	παραβολή (paravolí)	παραβολές (paravolés)
genitive	παραβολής (paravolís)	παραβολών (paravolón)
accusative	παραβολή (paravolí)	παραβολές (paravolés)
vocative	παραβολή (paravolí)	παραβολές (paravolés)

Further reading

παραβολή, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

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