παρεμβολή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πᾰρεμβᾰ́λλω (parembállō, “to insert, interpolate”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pa.rem.bo.lɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pa.rem.boˈle̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pa.rem.boˈli/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pa.rem.boˈli/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pa.rem.boˈli/
Noun
πᾰρεμβολή • (parembolḗ) f (genitive πᾰρεμβολῆς); first declension
- insertion, interpolation
- 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 205:
- ἑτέρων παρεμβολῇ πραγμάτων εἰς λήθην ὑμᾶς βούλεται τῆς κατηγορίας ἐμβαλεῖν.
- hetérōn parembolêi pragmátōn eis lḗthēn humâs boúletai tês katēgorías embaleîn.
- He seeks by insertion of extraneous matters to plunge you into forgetfulness of the charge.
- ἑτέρων παρεμβολῇ πραγμάτων εἰς λήθην ὑμᾶς βούλεται τῆς κατηγορίας ἐμβαλεῖν.
- (grammar) parenthesis; interjection
- 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis, Fig. 25
- Tiberius, de Figuris 48
- drawing up in battle-order
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, 11 32.6
- company of soldiers
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 33.8:
- τί ταῦτά σοι ἐστί, πᾶσαι αἱ παρεμβολαί αὗται, αἷς ἀπήντηκα;
- tí taûtá soi estí, pâsai hai parembolaí haûtai, haîs apḗntēka?
- What do you mean by all this company which I met?
- τί ταῦτά σοι ἐστί, πᾶσαι αἱ παρεμβολαί αὗται, αἷς ἀπήντηκα;
- encampment
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 14.19:
- ἐξῇρε δὲ ὁ ἄγγελος τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ προπορευόμενος τῆς παρεμβολῆς τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἐπορεύθη ἐκ τῶν ὄπισθεν
- exêire dè ho ángelos toû Theoû ho proporeuómenos tês parembolês tôn huiôn Israḕl kaì eporeúthē ek tôn ópisthen
- The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them
- ἐξῇρε δὲ ὁ ἄγγελος τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ προπορευόμενος τῆς παρεμβολῆς τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἐπορεύθη ἐκ τῶν ὄπισθεν
- (in boxing and wrestling, with βάλλειν (bállein)) I trip by a twist of the leg
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Ocypus (Swift-of-Foot) 60
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.638f
Synonyms
- (interjection): ἐπῐφώνημᾰ (epiphṓnēma)
- (encampment): πᾰρέμβλησῐς (parémblēsis)
Derived terms
- πᾰρεμβολῐκός (parembolikós)
- πᾰρεμβολοειδής (paremboloeidḗs)
- πᾰρεμβολοθέτης (parembolothétēs)
References
- “παρεμβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “παρεμβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παρεμβολή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3925 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- insertion idem, page 444.
- interpolation idem, page 452.
- M. Wright: A New Greek-English and English-Greek Lexicon - A Greek and English Lexicon, On a Plan Entirely New: In Four Parts; Greek; Greek-English, Difficult Inflexions, English-Greek, and Proper Names. 7th edition, London, 1843, p.117
- Anweisung zur Lateinischen Sprache, aus Emmanuelis Alvari S. J. Institutionibus Grammaticis, Von einem Priester bemeldter Gesellschaft kurz zusammen gezogen. Worzu noch kommen: Anfangsgründe der Lateinischen Verskunst; [...] Zum Gebrauch der Schulen der Gesellschaft JEsu in der Oberdeutschen Provinz. New and improved edition, 1770, p.326 (spelled: παρεμβολὴ)