# parabola
## English
### 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: /pəˈɹæbələ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (South Asia) IPA: /ˈpæɾəˌboːlaː/

### Noun

parabola (plural parabolas or parabolae or parabolæ)
* (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).
* (rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.
    Synonym: parable

#### Translations
### See also

* circle
* conic section
* ellipse
* hyperbola

### Further reading

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

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parabola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈparabola]
* Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

### Noun

parabola f
* parabola (geometry)
* parable

#### Declension
### 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
* third-person singular past historic of paraboler

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɒrɒbolɒ]
* Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧la
* Rhymes: -lɒ

### Noun

parabola (plural parabolák)
* (geometry) parabola

#### Declension
### 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)
* (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).
* (colloquial) satellite dish (a parabolic antenna)
    Synonyms: antena parabola, antena satelit
* (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: /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)
* (mathematics) parabola
    Synonym: curva
* (by extension) course
    Synonyms: andamento, percorso
* parable
* satellite dish
    Synonyms: parabolica, antenna parabolica

##### Derived terms

* parabolico

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

parabola
* inflection of parabolare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* parabolē

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

parabola f (genitive parabolae); first declension
* A comparison, illustration, likeness
* (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 eōrumHe shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
* (Medieval Latin, Late Latin) word

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### 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
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin parabola. Doublet of parol.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.raˈbɔ.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Syllabification: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

### Noun

parabola f
* (geometry) parabola
* (narratology, rhetoric) parable

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /parǎbola/
* Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧la

### Noun

paràbola f (Cyrillic spelling пара̀бола)
* (geometry) parabola
* parable

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

Derived from Latin parabola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈparabɔla]

### Noun

parabola f (relational adjective parabolický, diminutive parabolka)
* (geometry) parabola
* parable

#### Declension
### 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