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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὑπερβάλλω (huperbállō, “to go beyond, exceed”) + -η (-ē, verbal noun suffix), from ὑπερ- (huper-) + βάλλω (bállō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hy.per.bo.lɛ̌ː/ → /y.per.βoˈli/ → /i.per.voˈli/
Noun
ὑπερβολή • (huperbolḗ) f (genitive ὑπερβολῆς); first declension
- overshooting
- superiority
- excess, extremity
- A crossing over, passage
- delay
- (geometry) hyperbola
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ὑπερβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑπερβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὑπερβολή 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
- G5236 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.
- acme idem, page 8.
- aggravation idem, page 18.
- enormity idem, page 276.
- exaggeration idem, page 287.
- excess idem, page 288.
- exorbitance idem, page 292.
- extravagance idem, page 297.
- extreme idem, page 298.
- extremity idem, page 298.
- fulsomeness idem, page 349.
- glorification idem, page 362.
- hyperbole idem, page 412.
- inordinateness idem, page 443.
- outrageousness idem, page 583.
- overstatement idem, page 586.
- pre-eminence idem, page 632.
- preponderance idem, page 635.
- stupendousness idem, page 829.
- superiority idem, page 839.
- vantage idem, page 944.