parabolo

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paraˈbolo/
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧bo‧lo

Etymology 1

Noun

parabolo (accusative singular parabolon, plural paraboloj, accusative plural parabolojn)

  1. (geometry) parabola

Etymology 2

Noun

parabolo (accusative singular parabolon, plural paraboloj, accusative plural parabolojn)

  1. (rhetoric) parable

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈra.bo.lo/
  • Rhymes: -abolo
  • Hyphenation: pa‧rà‧bo‧lo

Verb

parabolo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of parabolare

Latin

Etymology 1

From the noun parabola (parable, comparison, allegory) +‎ (verb-forming suffix). First attested from 678 CE in northern France.[1]

Verb

parabolō (present infinitive parabolāre, perfect active parabolāvī, supine parabolātum); first conjugation (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. to make clear by metaphors[2]
  2. to talk; speak; communicate using words[3]
    Nostri seniores, sicut audistis, parabolaverunt simul et consideraverunt cum communibus illorum fidelibus de Dei servitio, etc.
    Our elders, as you have listened, they have spoken and at the same time considered with their fellow believers about the service of God, etc.
  3. (New Latin) to compare[4]
Conjugation
Descendants

All descendants reflect a shortened form */parˈlare/.

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: parlà
    • Italian: parlare (see there for further descendants)
    • Neapolitan: parlà
      Tarantino: parlare
    • Sicilian: parrari, pallari, parlari
    • Interlingua: parlar
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek παραβολεύομαι (paraboleúomai, venture, lack regard, run hazard), as a Latin gloss for New Testament, Epistle to Philemon 2:30.[3]

Verb

parabolō (present infinitive parabolāre, perfect active parabolāvī, supine parabolātum); first conjugation

  1. (Medieval Latin) endanger, lack regard for, to risk[3]
    Parabolatus est de anima sua
Conjugation

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

parabolō m

  1. dative/ablative singular of parabolus

References

  • parabolo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “parabolare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 612
  2. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “parabolare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 760/2
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "parabolare", 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)
  4. ^ parabolo in Ramminger, Johann (29 July 2025 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.raˈbɔ.lɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
  • Syllabification: pa‧ra‧bo‧lo

Noun

parabolo f

  1. vocative singular of parabola