parábola

Learned borrowing from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of palabra. The mathematical sense is taken from New Latin or directly from Greek.

parábola f (plural parábolas)

1. (mathematics) parabola
2. parable

Learned borrowing from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of palavra. The mathematical sense is taken from New Latin or directly from Greek.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -abulɐ
• Hyphenation: pa‧rá‧bo‧la

parábola f (plural parábolas)

1. parable
2. (mathematics) parabola

• parabólico

• “parábola”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “parábola”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Learned borrowing from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of palabra. The mathematical sense is taken from New Latin or directly from Greek.

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾabola/ [paˈɾa.β̞o.la]

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• Rhymes: -abola
• Syllabification: pa‧rá‧bo‧la

parábola f (plural parábolas)

1. (mathematics) parabola
2. parable

• “parábola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025