Ancient Greek

Noun

ὑπερβολή • ‎(huperbolḗ) f ‎(genitive ὑπερβολῆς); first declension

1. overshooting
2. superiority
3. excess, extremity
4. A crossing over, passage
5. delay
6. (geometry) hyperbola

Inflection

Descendants

• Danish: hyperbel
• Greek: υπερβολή ‎(ypervolí)
• English: hyperbola, hyperbole
• Russian: гипе́рбола f ‎(gipérbola)

References

• ὑπερβολή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑπερβολή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὑπερβολή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G5236”, 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.
  • acme idem, page 8.
  • aggravation idem, page 18.
  • enormity idem, page 276.
  • exaggeration idem, page 287.
  • excess idem, page 288.
  • exorbitance idem, page 292.
  • extravagance idem, page 297.
  • extreme idem, page 298.
  • extremity idem, page 298.
  • fulsomeness idem, page 349.
  • glorification idem, page 362.
  • hyperbole idem, page 412.
  • inordinateness idem, page 443.
  • outrageousness idem, page 583.
  • overstatement idem, page 586.
  • pre-eminence idem, page 633.
  • preponderance idem, page 635.
  • stupendousness idem, page 829.
  • superiority idem, page 839.
  • vantage idem, page 944.