alegoría

Concepts

allegory

allegorist

fable

simile

parabole

Translations

allégorie

allegoria

alegoria

Allegorie

αλληγορία

al·legoria

Sinnbild

Gleichnis

allegorie

allegoria

parábola

allegorismo

Allegorik

paragone

Hyphenated as

a‧le‧go‧rí‧a

Pronounced as (IPA)

/aleɡoˈɾia/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin: allēgoria

In summary

Borrowed from Latin allēgoria, from Ancient Greek ἀλληγορία (allēgoría, “figurative language”), from ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak”).