parabola

See also: parábola, paràbola, parabolă, and parabolą

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/

  • Audio (US):

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• (South Asia) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɾəˌboːlaː/

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) Arabic: قَطْعٌ مُكَافِئ m (qaṭʕun mukāfiʔ), شَلْجَمِيّ m (šaljamiyy), عَدَسِي m (ʕadasī) Armenian: պարաբոլ (hy) (parabol) Belarusian: пара́бала f (parábala) Bengali: পরাবৃত্ত (bn) (porabritto) Bulgarian: пара́бола (bg) f (parábola) Catalan: paràbola (ca) f Cebuano: halitok Chinese: Mandarin: 拋物線 / 抛物线 (zh) (pāowùxiàn) Czech: parabola Danish: parabel c Dutch: parabool (nl) Esperanto: parabolo Faroese: parabil m Finnish: paraabeli (fi) French: parabole (fr) f Galician: parábola (gl) 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 (is) m Irish: parabóil Italian: parabola (it) f Japanese: 放物線 (ja) (ほうぶつせん, hōbutsusen) Khmer: ប៉ារ៉ាបូល (paaraaboul) Korean: 포물선(抛物線) (ko) (pomulseon) Latvian: parabola Lithuanian: parabolė (lt) Macedonian: парабола f (parabola) Malayalam: പരവലയം (paravalayaṁ) 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 (parāvalayaṁ) 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

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parabola.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

parabola f

1. parabola (geometry)
2. parable

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	parabola	paraboly
genitive	paraboly	parabol
dative	parabole	parabolám
accusative	parabolu	paraboly
vocative	parabolo	paraboly
locative	parabole	parabolách
instrumental	parabolou	parabolami

Declension of parabola (hard feminine)

Further reading

• “parabola”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “parabola”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: parabolas, parabolât

Verb

parabola

1. third-person singular past historic of paraboler

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

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

Further reading

• parabola in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabel.

Noun

parabola (plural parabola-parabola)

1. (geometry) parabola, 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. (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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈra.bo.la/
• Rhymes: -abola
• Hyphenation: pa‧rà‧bo‧la

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parola, which was inherited. Mathematical sense taken from New Latin or Greek.

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

parabola

1. inflection of parabolare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Alternative forms

• parabolē

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈra.bo.la/, [päˈräbɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈra.bo.la/, [päˈräːbolä]

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.
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.1.6:

     animadvertet parabolam et interpretātiōnem, verba sapientum et aenigmata eōrum

     He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

3. (Medieval Latin, Late Latin) word

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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

• Vulgar Latin:
  • Emilian-Romagnol:
    • Emilian: parôla
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Dalmatian: palaura, paraura, paraula, palaula
    • Italian: parola
    • Sicilian: parola, palora, paràula, palàura
  • Judeo-Italian: פַארַאוֵילַה (paravela)
  • Ligurian: paròlla, poula
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: parabra
  • Old French: parole
    • Middle French: parole
      • French: parole
        • → Haitian Creole: pawòl
        • → Romanian: parolă
        • → Russian: пароль (parolʹ)
          • → Eastern Mari: пароль (paroĺ)
      • → English: parole
    • Walloon: parole
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: pallabra, palabra
    • Extremaduran: palabra
    • Leonese: pallabra
    • Mirandese: palabra
  • Old Occitan: paraulla, paraula
    • Occitan: paraula
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: palavra, paravla, paravoa, paravra
    • Fala: palabra
    • Galician: palabra, palavra
    • Portuguese: palavra (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: parabla
    • Ladino: palavra / פאלאברה
    • Spanish: palabra
      • → English: palabra
      • → French: palabre
      • → Greek: παλάβρα (palávra)
        • → Turkish: palavra, palavara, patavra, partal (dialectal)
          • → Romanian: palavră
      • → Papiamentu: palabra
      • → Tagalog: palabra
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: peraule
    • Ladin: parola
  • Sardinian: paragula, peraula
  • Venetan: paroła, paròla, paròła
  • → Interlingua: parola
• Ecclesiastical Latin:
  • → Albanian: përrallë
  • → Catalan: paràbola
  • → Dutch: parabel
  • → English: parabola, parabole
  • → Esperanto: parabolo
  • → Finnish: paraabeli
  • → German: Parabel
  • → Italian: parabola
  • → Old French: parabole, parable
    • French: parabole
    • Norman: pathabole
    • → Middle English: parable, parabole, parabol, parabele, parabyl, parabyll, parabil
      • English: parable
      • Scots: parable
      • Yola: parboles (plural)
  • → Polish: parabola
  • → Portuguese: parábola
  • → Romanian: parabolă
  • → Spanish: parábola, palabra
  • → Swedish: parabel
  • → Middle Irish: baramail
    • Irish: barúil
    • Manx: barel
    • Scottish Gaelic: barail

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

parabola

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin parabola. Doublet of parol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.raˈbɔ.la/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

Noun

parabola f

1. (geometry) parabola
2. (narratology, rhetoric) parable

Declension

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

Declension of parabola

Further reading

• parabola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• parabola in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

paràbola f (Cyrillic spelling пара̀бола)

1. (geometry) parabola
2. parable

Declension

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

Declension of parabola

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Latin parabola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈparabɔla]

Noun

parabola f (relational adjective parabolický, diminutive parabolka)

1. (geometry) parabola
2. parable

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	parabola	paraboly
genitive	paraboly	parabol
dative	parabole	parabolám
accusative	parabolu	paraboly
locative	parabole	parabolách
instrumental	parabolou	parabolami

Declension of parabola (pattern žena)

Further reading

• “parabola”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025