parabola
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
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
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- Silva Rhetoricae
- Parabola (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Czech edit
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parabola f
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parabola
- third-person singular past historic of paraboler
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
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parabola (plural parabolák)
Declension edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabel.
Noun edit
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 edit
- “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.
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Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
parabola f (plural parabole)
- (mathematics) parabola
- Synonym: curva
- (by extension) course
- parable
- satellite dish
- Synonyms: parabolica, antenna parabolica
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
parabola
- inflection of parabolare:
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /paˈra.bo.la/, [päˈräbɔɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈra.bo.la/, [päˈräːbolä]
Noun edit
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 edit
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 edit
- (comparison): aequiparantia, collātiō, comparātiō, similitūdō
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- 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 edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin parabola. Doublet of parol.
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parabola f
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Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paràbola f (Cyrillic spelling пара̀бола)
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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 edit
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parabola f (genitive singular paraboly, nominative plural paraboly, genitive plural parabol, declension pattern of žena)
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References edit
- “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