Ancient Greek

Noun

παρεμβολή • ‎(parembolḗ) f ‎(genitive πᾰρεμβολῆς); first declension

1. insertion, interpolation
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 205

     ἑτέρων παρεμβολῇ πραγμάτων εἰς λήθην ὑμᾶς βούλεται τῆς κατηγορίας ἐμβαλεῖν.

     He seeks by insertion of extraneous matters to plunge you into forgetfulness of the charge.

2. (grammar) parenthesis; interjection
   1. • 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis, Fig. 25
      • Tiberius, de Figuris 48
3. drawing up in battle-order
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, 11 32.6
   1. company of soldiers
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 33.8

        τί ταῦτά σοι ἐστί, πᾶσαι αἱ παρεμβολαί αὗται, αἷς ἀπήντηκα;

        What do you mean by all this company which I met?

   2. 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

        The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them

4. (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 2.638.f

Derived terms

• πᾰρεμβολῐκός ‎(parembolikós)
• πᾰρεμβολοειδής ‎(paremboloeidḗs)
• πᾰρεμβολοθέτης ‎(parembolothétēs)

Synonyms

• (interjection): ἐπῐφώνημᾰ ‎(epiphṓnēma)
• (encampment): πᾰρέμβλησῐς ‎(parémblēsis)

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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)