παραβολή

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 2 February 2014

Etymology

From παραβάλλω (parabállō, “to set side by side”) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.ra.bo.lɛ̌ː/ → /pa.ra.βoˈli/ → /pa.ra.voˈli/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.bo.lɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.boˈle̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.βoˈli/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.voˈli/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.voˈli/

Noun

παραβολή • (parabolḗ) f (genitive παραβολῆς); first declension

1. a placing of two things side by side, juxtaposition
2. comparison, illustration, analogy
3. parable, proverb
4. side by side meeting or engagement, broadside
5. venture
6. (astronomy) conjunction
7. (mathematics) division
8. (geometry) parabola

Declension

First declension of ἡ πᾰρᾰβολή; τῆς πᾰρᾰβολῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰρᾰβολή hē parabolḗ	τὼ πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ tṑ parabolā́	αἱ πᾰρᾰβολαί hai parabolaí
Genitive	τῆς πᾰρᾰβολῆς tês parabolês	τοῖν πᾰρᾰβολαῖν toîn parabolaîn	τῶν πᾰρᾰβολῶν tôn parabolôn
Dative	τῇ πᾰρᾰβολῇ têi parabolêi	τοῖν πᾰρᾰβολαῖν toîn parabolaîn	ταῖς πᾰρᾰβολαῖς taîs parabolaîs
Accusative	τὴν πᾰρᾰβολήν tḕn parabolḗn	τὼ πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ tṑ parabolā́	τᾱ̀ς πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ς tā̀s parabolā́s
Vocative	πᾰρᾰβολή parabolḗ	πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ parabolā́	πᾰρᾰβολαί parabolaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Albanian: parabolë
• Bulgarian: парабола (parabola)
• Czech: parabola
• Danish: parabel, parabol
• Dutch: parabool
• English: parabola, parabole
• German: Parabel
• Greek: παραβολή (paravolí)
• Hindi: परवलय (paravlay)
• Hungarian: parabola
• → Latin: parabola (see there for further descendants)
• Polish: parabola
• Russian: пара́бола f (parábola)
• Serbo-Croatian: paràbola
• Serbo-Croatian: пара̀бола
• Swedish: parabel
• Turkish: parabol
• Ukrainian: парабола (parabola)

Further reading

• “παραβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “παραβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• παραβολή 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
• G3850 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • comparison idem, page 150.

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ).

Noun

παραβολή • (paravolí) f (plural παραβολές)

1. (mathematics, geometry) parabola
2. (literature, religion) parable
3. comparison

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	παραβολή (paravolí)	παραβολές (paravolés)
genitive	παραβολής (paravolís)	παραβολών (paravolón)
accusative	παραβολή (paravolí)	παραβολές (paravolés)
vocative	παραβολή (paravolí)	παραβολές (paravolés)

Further reading

• παραβολή, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language