ὑπερβολή

See also: υπερβολή

Ancient Greek

From ὑπερβάλλω (huperbállō, “to go beyond, exceed”) +‎ -η (-ē, verbal noun suffix).

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

First declension of ἡ ὑπερβολή; τῆς ὑπερβολῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὑπερβολή hē huperbolḗ	τὼ ὑπερβολᾱ́ tṑ huperbolā́	αἱ ὑπερβολαί hai huperbolaí
Genitive	τῆς ὑπερβολῆς tês huperbolês	τοῖν ὑπερβολαῖν toîn huperbolaîn	τῶν ὑπερβολῶν tôn huperbolôn
Dative	τῇ ὑπερβολῇ têi huperbolêi	τοῖν ὑπερβολαῖν toîn huperbolaîn	ταῖς ὑπερβολαῖς taîs huperbolaîs
Accusative	τὴν ὑπερβολήν tḕn huperbolḗn	τὼ ὑπερβολᾱ́ tṑ huperbolā́	τᾱ̀ς ὑπερβολᾱ́ς tā̀s huperbolā́s
Vocative	ὑπερβολή huperbolḗ	ὑπερβολᾱ́ huperbolā́	ὑπερβολαί huperbolaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

→ Danish: hyperbel
Greek: υπερβολή (ypervolí)
→ Latin: hyperbolē (see there for further descendants)
- → English: hyperbola, hyperbole
→ Russian: гипе́рбола f (gipérbola)

“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, 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.
- 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 632.
- preponderance idem, page 635.
- stupendousness idem, page 829.
- superiority idem, page 839.
- vantage idem, page 944.

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