köken: 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.
köken: Borrowed from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parola, which was inherited. Mathematical sense taken from New Latin or Greek.
köken: Borrowed from Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παραβάλλω (parabállō, “to set side by side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). Doublet of parool, parabel, and palaver.
köken: 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.
köken: Appears in Japanese in 1872 in the 代微積拾級訳解 (Dai Biseki Jikkyū Yakkai, literally “Translation and Explication of Algebraic and Differential Calculus”), a Japanese translation by 福田理軒 (Fukuda Riken) and 福田半 (Fukuda Han) of the 1851 book Elements of Analytical Geometry and of the Differential and Integral Calculus by Elias Loomis. According to the foreword, the translators referenced an earlier…
a parabola (the conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone) · a parable, a short story with an analogy