parabola

See also: parábola, paràbola, and parabolă

Contents

EnglishEdit

a parabola

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παραβάλλω (parabállō, “I set side by side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pəˈɹæbələ/

NounEdit

parabola (plural parabolas or parabolae or parabolæ)

1. (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).
2. (rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.

TranslationsEdit

a conic section

• Amharic: ባላ (bala)
• Armenian: պարաբոլ (hy) (parabol)
• Catalan: paràbola f
• Cebuano: halitok
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拋物線 (zh), 抛物线 (zh) (pāowùxiàn)

• Czech: parabola
• Dutch: parabool (nl)
• Esperanto: parabolo
• Finnish: paraabeli (fi)
• French: parabole (fr) f
• German: Parabel (de) f
• Greek: παραβολή (el) f (paravolí)
• Gujarati: પરવલય (parvalya)
• Hawaiian: palapola
• Hebrew: פרבולה‏‎ (he) f (parábola)
• Hindi: परवलय (paravalay)
• Hungarian: parabola (hu)
• Icelandic: fleygbogi
• Irish: parabóil
• Italian: parabola (it) f

• Japanese: 放物線 (ja) (ほうぶつせん, hōbutsusen)
• Korean: 포물선 (ko) (pomulseon) (抛物線 (ko))
• Malayalam: പരവലയം (paravalayaṃ)
• Marathi: परवलय (paravlay)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parabel m

  Nynorsk: parabel m

• Polish: parabola (pl) f
• Portuguese: parábola (pt) f
• Russian: пара́бола (ru) f (parábola)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пара̀бола f

  Roman: paràbola (sh) f

• Slovene: parabola (sl) f
• Spanish: parábola (es) f
• Swedish: parabel (sv) c
• Telugu: పరావలయం (parāvalayaṃ)
• Thai: พาราโบลา (paa-raa-boo-lâa)
• Turkish: parabol (tr)
• Vietnamese: parabôn

See alsoEdit

• circle
• conic section
• ellipse
• hyperbola

ReferencesEdit

• Silva Rhetoricae

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CzechEdit

NounEdit

parabola f

1. parabola (geometry)

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Homophones: parabolas, parabolât

VerbEdit

parabola

1. third-person singular past historic of paraboler

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HungarianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒrɒbolɒ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

NounEdit

parabola (plural parabolák)

1. (geometry) parabola

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	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

Possessive forms of parabola
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

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parola.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /paˈra.bo.la/, [päˈr̺äːbo̞l̺ä]
• Stress: paràbola
• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

NounEdit

parabola f (plural parabole)

1. (mathematics) parabola
2. parable
3. satellite dish

SynonymsEdit

• (satellite dish): parabolica, antenna parabolica

Derived termsEdit

• parabolico

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LatinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• parabolē

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”)

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈra.bo.la/, [paˈra.bɔ.ɫa]

NounEdit

parabola f (genitive parabolae); first declension

1. A comparison, illustration, likeness
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) An allegorical relation, parable; proverb; taunting speech or any speech.
3. (Medieval Latin) word

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	parabola	parabolae
genitive	parabolae	parabolārum
dative	parabolae	parabolīs
accusative	parabolam	parabolās
ablative	parabolā	parabolīs
vocative	parabola	parabolae

SynonymsEdit

• (comparison): aequiparantia, collātiō, comparātiō, similitūdō

Derived termsEdit

• parabolicē

DescendantsEdit

Descendants

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• Ecclesiastical Latin:
  • Albanian: përrallë
  • Catalan: paràbola
  • Dutch: parabel
  • Esperanto: parabolo
  • Finnish: paraabeli
  • German: Parabel
  • Italian: parabola
  • Old French: parabole
    • English: parable
    • French: parabole
    • Norman: pathabole
  • Polish: parabola
  • Portuguese: parábola
  • Romanian: parabolă
  • Spanish: parábola
  • Swedish: parabel
• Old Irish: baramail
  • Irish: barúil
  • Manx: barel
  • Scottish Gaelic: barail

• Vulgar Latin:
  • Emilian-Romagnol:
    • Emilian: parôla
  • Interlingua: parola
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Dalmatian: palaura, paraura, paraula, palaula
    • Italian: parola
    • Sicilian: parola, palora, paràula, palàura
  • Ligurian: paròlla
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: parabra
  • Old French: parole
    • English: parole
    • Middle French: parole
      • French: parole
        • Haitian Creole: pawòl
    • Walloon: parole
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: pallabra, palabra
    • Extremaduran: palabra
    • Leonese: pallabra
    • Mirandese: palabra
  • Old Portuguese: palavra, paravra, paravla, paravoa
    • Galician: palabra
    • Portuguese: palavra
      • Angolar: palava
      • English: palaver
        • Danish: palaver
        • Finnish: palaveri
        • German: Palaver
        • Hungarian: paláver
      • Guinea-Bissau Creole: palabra, palavra
      • Indo-Portuguese: palau, palav, paláver, pálver, pálvra
      • Kabuverdianu: palábra, palávra
      • Korlai Creole Portuguese: palab
      • Principense: palava
  • Old Provençal: paraula, paraulla
    • Catalan: paraula
    • Occitan: paraula
  • Old Spanish: parabla
    • Ladino: palavra / פאלאברה‏
    • Spanish: palabra
      • English: palabra
      • French: palabre
      • Papiamentu: palabra
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: peraule
    • Ladin: parola
  • Romanian: parolă
  • Sardinian: paragula, peraula
  • Venetian: paroła, paròla, paròła

ReferencesEdit

• parabola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “parabola”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pa.raˈbɔ.la/

NounEdit

parabola f

1. (geometry) parabola
2. parable

DeclensionEdit

declension of parabola

	singular	plural
nominative	parabola	parabole
genitive	paraboli	paraboli/parabol
dative	paraboli	parabolom
accusative	parabolę	parabole
instrumental	parabolą	parabolami
locative	paraboli	parabolach
vocative	parabolo	parabole

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /parǎbola/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

NounEdit

paràbola f (Cyrillic spelling пара̀бола)

1. (geometry) parabola
2. parable

DeclensionEdit

Declension of parabola

	singular	plural
nominative	parabola	parabole
genitive	parabole	parabola
dative	paraboli	parabolama
accusative	parabolu	parabole
vocative	parabolo	parabole
locative	paraboli	parabolama
instrumental	parabolom	parabolama