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
Noun
parabola (plural parabolas or parabolae or parabolæ)
- (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).
- (rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.
- Synonym: parable
Translations
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See also
Further reading
- Silva Rhetoricae
- Parabola (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Czech
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
parabola f
Declension
Further reading
- parabola in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- parabola in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Pronunciation
Verb
parabola
- third-person singular past historic of paraboler
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Noun
parabola (plural parabolák)
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | parabola | parabolák |
accusative | parabolát | parabolákat |
dative | parabolának | paraboláknak |
instrumental | parabolával | parabolákkal |
causal-final | paraboláért | parabolákért |
translative | parabolává | parabolákká |
terminative | paraboláig | parabolákig |
essive-formal | parabolaként | parabolákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | parabolában | parabolákban |
superessive | parabolán | parabolákon |
adessive | parabolánál | paraboláknál |
illative | parabolába | parabolákba |
sublative | parabolára | parabolákra |
allative | parabolához | parabolákhoz |
elative | parabolából | parabolákból |
delative | paraboláról | parabolákról |
ablative | parabolától | paraboláktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
paraboláé | paraboláké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
paraboláéi | parabolákéi |
Possessive forms of parabola | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | parabolám | paraboláim |
2nd person sing. | parabolád | paraboláid |
3rd person sing. | parabolája | parabolái |
1st person plural | parabolánk | paraboláink |
2nd person plural | parabolátok | paraboláitok |
3rd person plural | parabolájuk | paraboláik |
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)
- (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).
- (colloquial) satellite dish (a parabolic antenna)
- Synonyms: antena parabola, antena satelit
- (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 of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Pronunciation
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)
- (mathematics) parabola
- Synonym: curva
- (by extension) course
- parable
- satellite dish
- Synonyms: parabolica, antenna parabolica
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
parabola
- inflection of parabolare:
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /paˈra.bo.la/, [päˈräbɔɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈra.bo.la/, [päˈräːbolä]
Noun
parabola f (genitive parabolae); first declension
- A comparison, illustration, likeness
- (Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin) An allegorical relation, parable; proverb; taunting speech or any speech.
- (Medieval Latin, Late Latin) word
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | parabola | parabolae |
Genitive | parabolae | parabolārum |
Dative | parabolae | parabolīs |
Accusative | parabolam | parabolās |
Ablative | parabolā | parabolīs |
Vocative | parabola | parabolae |
Synonyms
- (comparison): aequiparantia, collātiō, comparātiō, similitūdō
Derived terms
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin:
- Emilian-Romagnol:
- Emilian: parôla
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Judeo-Italian: פַארַאוֵילַה (paravela)
- Ligurian: paròlla, poula
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: parabra
- Old French: parole
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan: paraulla, paraula
- Occitan: paraula
- Old Galician-Portuguese: palavra, paravla, paravoa, paravra
- Old Spanish: parabla
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: paragula, peraula
- Venetian: paroła, paròla, paròła
- → Interlingua: parola
- Emilian-Romagnol:
- Ecclesiastical Latin:
- → Albanian: përrallë
- → Catalan: paràbola
- → Dutch: parabel
- → English: parabola, parabole
- → Esperanto: parabolo
- → Finnish: paraabeli
- → German: Parabel
- → Italian: parabola
- → Old French: parabole, parable
- → Polish: parabola
- → Portuguese: parábola
- → Romanian: parabolă
- → Spanish: parábola, palabra
- → Swedish: parabel
- → Middle Irish: baramail
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
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin parabola. Doublet of parol.
Pronunciation
Noun
parabola f
Declension
Further reading
- parabola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- parabola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
paràbola f (Cyrillic spelling пара̀бола)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | parabola | parabole |
genitive | parabole | parabola |
dative | paraboli | parabolama |
accusative | parabolu | parabole |
vocative | parabolo | parabole |
locative | paraboli | parabolama |
instrumental | parabolom | parabolama |
Slovak
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
parabola f (genitive singular paraboly, nominative plural paraboly, genitive plural parabol, declension pattern of žena)
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
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