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parabola

parabola · f

a comparison

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Where it lives

De Pudicitia 21 · 15.62/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 22 · 9.71/10k
De Oratione 4 · 8.91/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 2 · 3.76/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 3 · 3.61/10k
Adversus Marcionem 21 · 2.54/10k
De Scorpiace 2 · 2.51/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
De Anima 2 · 0.84/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. părăbŏla — Lewis & Short

părăbŏla, ae, and părăbŏlē, ēs, f., = parabolh/,

I a comparison.

I Lit.: in omni parabole aut praecedit similitudo, res sequitur; aut praecedit res, similitude sequitur, Quint. 8, 3, 77; 6, 3, 59: qui simpliciter et demonstrandae rei causā eloquebantur, parabolis referti sunt, Sen. Ep. 59, 5.—

II Transf., in eccl. Lat., an allegorical relation, a parable, Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 5; Aug. quaest. Evang. 2, 45; Vulg. Job, 27, 1; id. Matt. 13, 3 et saep.—

B A proverb, Vulg. 3 Reg. 4, 32.—

C A taunting speech, Vulg. Hab. 2, 6.—

D Any speech, esp. in phrase: assumptā parabolā, Vulg. Num. 23, 7.

2. parabola — Walde–Hofmann

parabola, -ae f. , Gleichnis" (sett Sen., rom. [, Wort" und ,Spruch*], ebenso parabolor — mapaßokebopa: seit Itala, parabolicus seit Hil., parabolürius seit Firm., Heraeus Kl Schr. 70): aus gr. wapafoMj f. „Gleichnis“, in LXX (nach dem Hebr.) „Sprichwort, Spruch, Gnome, Spott* (Wackernagel IF. 31, 2628; unrichtig Goldberger Cl. 20, 121). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. parabola, p. 1157]

In the wild

parabolis Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 14
parabolam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.39
parabolam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.26
parabolam Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 33
parabolae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.39
parabolae Tertullian, De Anima 18

6 of 82 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. parabola (scan p. 505; entry #8213).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. parabola (scan p. 1157; entry #1953).

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