parabola

See also: parábola, paràbola, and parabolă

English

a parabola (1)

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

• enPR: pərăb'ələ, IPA^(key): /pəˈɹæbələ/

Noun

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.

   Synonym: parable

Translations

a conic section

• Amharic: ባላ (bala)
• Armenian: պարաբոլ (hy) (parabol)
• Belarusian: пара́бала f (parábala)
• Bengali: পরাবৃত্ত (bn) (pôrabritt)
• Bulgarian: пара́бола (bg) f (parábola)
• Catalan: paràbola (ca) 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
• Georgian: პარაბოლა (ṗarabola)
• German: Parabel (de) f
• Greek: παραβολή (el) f (paravolí)

  Ancient: παραβολή f (parabolḗ)

• Gujarati: પરવલય (parvalya)
• Hawaiian: palapola
• Hebrew: פָּרָבּוֹלָה‎ (he) f (parábola)
• Hindi: परवलय (paravlay)
• 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))
• Macedonian: парабола f (parabola)
• Malayalam: പരവലയം (paravalayaṃ)
• Marathi: परवलय (paravlay)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parabel m

  Nynorsk: parabel m

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

  Cyrillic: пара̀бола f

  Roman: paràbola (sh) f

• Slovak: parabola 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)
• Ukrainian: пара́бола f (parábola)
• Vietnamese: parabôn

See also

• circle
• conic section
• ellipse
• hyperbola

Further reading

• Silva Rhetoricae
• Parabola (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈparabola]

Noun

parabola f

1. parabola (geometry)

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: parabolas, parabolât

Verb

parabola

1. third-person singular past historic of paraboler

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

parabola (plural parabolák)

1. (geometry) parabola

Declension

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
non-attributive possessive - singular	paraboláé	paraboláké
non-attributive possessive - plural	paraboláéi	parabolákéi

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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Indonesian

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ).

Noun

parabola (plural, first-person possessive parabolaku, second-person possessive parabolamu, third-person possessive parabolanya)

1. (geometry) parabola
2. (colloquial) satellite dish (a parabolic antenna)

   Synonyms: antena parabola, antena satelit

3. (by metonymy, colloquial) satellite television (subscription)

   Synonym: televisi satelit

Further reading

• “parabola” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Etymology

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

Mathematical sense taken from New Latin or Greek.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

parabola f (plural parabole)

1. (mathematics) parabola

   Synonym: curva

2. (by extension) course

   Synonyms: andamento, percorso

3. parable
4. satellite dish

   Synonyms: parabolica, antenna parabolica

Derived terms

• parabolico

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Latin

Alternative forms

• parabolē

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

parabola f (genitive parabolae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
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

• parabolicē
• parabolō

Descendants

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
• → Middle 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
        • → Romanian: parolă
    • 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 Occitan: 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
  • Sardinian: paragula, peraula
  • Venetian: paroła, paròla, paròła

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, 1883–1887)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.raˈbɔ.la/

Noun

parabola f

1. (geometry) parabola
2. parable

Declension

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-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

paràbola f (Cyrillic spelling пара̀бола)

1. (geometry) parabola
2. parable

Declension

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