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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From παραβάλλω (parabállō, “to set side by side”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.ra.bo.lɛ̌ː/ → /pa.ra.βoˈli/ → /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
Descendants
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.
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ).
Noun
παραβολή • (paravolí) f (plural παραβολές)
- (mathematics, geometry) parabola
- (literature, religion) parable
- comparison
Declension
Further reading