hyperbole

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English iperbole, yperbole, from Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-). Doublet of hyperbola. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /haɪˈpɜːbəli/ (General American) IPA(key): /haɪˈpɝbəli/ Homophones: hyperbolae === Noun === hyperbole (countable and uncountable, plural hyperboles) (uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement. Synonyms: overstatement, exaggeration, auxesis Antonym: understatement (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement. (countable, geometry, obsolete) A hyperbola. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== hyperbola ==== Translations ==== === See also === adynaton === References === == French == === Etymology === From Middle French hyperbole, yperbole, a learned borrowing from Latin hyperbolē, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”). === Pronunciation === (mute h) IPA(key): /i.pɛʁ.bɔl/ Homophone: hyperboles Hyphenation: hy‧per‧bole === Noun === hyperbole f (plural hyperboles) (rhetoric) hyperbole (geometry) hyperbola Coordinate term: parabole ==== Related terms ==== hyperbolique ==== Descendants ==== → Romanian: hiperbolă, iperbolă → Turkish: hiperbol → Vietnamese: hypebol === Further reading === “hyperbole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”). Doublet of New Latin hyperbola. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hyˈpɛr.bɔ.ɫeː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iˈpɛr.bo.le] === Noun === hyperbolē f (genitive hyperbolēs); first declension exaggeration, hyperbole ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “hyperbole”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “hyperbole”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.