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παραβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 수학 천문학 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραβολή παραβολῆς

Structure: παραβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: paraba/llw

Sense

  1. a placing of two things side by side, juxtaposition
  2. comparison, illustration, analogy
  3. parable, proverb
  4. side by side meeting or engagement, broadside
  5. venture
  6. (astronomy) conjunction
  7. (mathematics) division
  8. (geometry) parabola

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • χρήσιμον δὲ πρὸσ τοῦτο καὶ τὸ τῆσ παραβολῆσ, ὅταν γενόμενοι καθ’ αὑτοὺσ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀκροάσεωσ καὶ λαβόντεσ τι τῶν μὴ καλῶσ ἢ μὴ ἱκανῶσ εἰρῆσθαι δοκούντων ἐπιχειρῶμεν εἰσ ταὐτὸ καὶ προάγωμεν αὑτοὺσ τὰ μὲν ὥσπερ ἀναπληροῦν, τὰ δ’ ἐπανορθοῦσθαι, τὰ δ’ ἑτέρωσ φράζειν, τὰ δ’ ὅλοισ ἐξ ὑπαρχῆσ εἰσφέρειν πειρώμενοι πρὸσ τὴν ὑπόθεσιν. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 6 9:1)
  • κατὰ τὴν σύνθεσιν γὰρ τῆσ παραβολῆσ ἀληθοῦσ οὔσησ ἡ λύσισ <οὐκ> ἔστιν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 248:2)
  • "εἴτε πρόβλημα περὶ τοῦ χωρίου τῆσ παραβολῆσ. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 1115)
  • ἢ δὴ οὕτωσ ἢ ἐκ παραβολῆσ ἢ κατὰ φύσιν ὡσ ἐλέχθη, οὕτωσ τὰ αὐτοῦ, καὶ πάλιν, ἐὰν βούλῃ, χωρὶσ τὰ τοῦ ἐναντίου λόγου. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 19 5:6)
  • καὶ τὸν διὰ παραβολῆσ λόγον ἀνῄρει, λέγων ἤτοι ἐξ ὁμοίων αὐτὸν ἢ ἐξ ἀνομοίων συνίστασθαι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. i'. EUKLEIDHS 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a placing of two things side by side

  2. venture

  3. conjunction

  4. division

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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