παραβολή
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 2 February 2014
Etymology
From παραβάλλω (parabállō, “to set side by side”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pa.ra.bo.lɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pa.ra.boˈle̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pa.ra.βoˈli/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pa.ra.voˈli/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pa.ra.voˈli/
Noun
παραβολή • (parabolḗ) f (genitive παραβολῆς); first declension
- a placing of two things side by side, juxtaposition
- comparison, illustration, analogy
- parable, proverb
- side by side meeting or engagement, broadside
- venture
- (astronomy) conjunction
- (mathematics) division
- (geometry) parabola
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πᾰρᾰβολή hē părăbolḗ |
τὼ πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ tṑ părăbolā́ |
αἱ πᾰρᾰβολαί hai părăbolaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πᾰρᾰβολῆς tês părăbolês |
τοῖν πᾰρᾰβολαῖν toîn părăbolaîn |
τῶν πᾰρᾰβολῶν tôn părăbolôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πᾰρᾰβολῇ tēî părăbolēî |
τοῖν πᾰρᾰβολαῖν toîn părăbolaîn |
ταῖς πᾰρᾰβολαῖς taîs părăbolaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πᾰρᾰβολήν tḕn părăbolḗn |
τὼ πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ tṑ părăbolā́ |
τᾱ̀ς πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ς tā̀s părăbolā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πᾰρᾰβολή părăbolḗ |
πᾰρᾰβολᾱ́ părăbolā́ |
πᾰρᾰβολαί părăbolaí | ||||||||||
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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)
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