hipérbole

Learned borrowing from Latin hyperbole, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”).

• Hyphenation: hi‧pér‧bo‧le

hipérbole f (plural hipérboles)

1. hyperbola
2. hyperbole

• “hipérbole”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). Doublet of hipérbola.

• IPA^(key): /iˈpeɾbole/ [iˈpeɾ.β̞o.le]
• Rhymes: -eɾbole
• Syllabification: hi‧pér‧bo‧le

hipérbole f (plural hipérboles)

1. (rhetoric, literature) hyperbole

• “hipérbole”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024