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parable

/ˈpeɹəbəl/PEH-ruh-buhl
/ˈpɛɹəbəl/PEH-ruh-buhl

Meaninga throwing beside; a comparison

Common meaning: a story with a lesson

‘beside’ + ‘to throw’ → parable

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GAR‘fall’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 96, p. 733 · scan
  2. Greekβάλλω; βολή‘to throw’
  3. Latinparabola
  4. Old Frenchparabolesource
  5. Middle Englishparabolesource
  6. Englishparable‘a story with a lesson’ · today

para- also in: paradoxparasolparasiteparagraphparalegal

bl also in: devilsymbolproblemdiabolicsymbolic

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Greek βάλλω; βολή ‘to throw; a throw’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry βάλλω, p. 593 · dictionary scan

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