Feminine

hyperbole

Meaning

  1. (feminine, rhetoric) hyperbole
  2. (feminine) hyperbola

Pronounced as (IPA)
/i.pɛʁ.bɔl/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle French hyperbole, yperbole, a learned borrowing from Latin hyperbolē, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”).

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