different between apologue vs parable

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ???????? (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ???- (apó-, “off, away from”) + ????? (lógos, “speech”).

Noun

apologue (countable and uncountable, plural apologues)

1. a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:

     "Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.

2. (rhetoric) use of fable to persuade the audience

Related terms

• apologetic

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin apologus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (apólogos).

Noun

apologue m (plural apologues)

1. apologue

Further reading

• “apologue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pa??b?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæ?.?.b?l/, /?p??.?.b?l/
• Rhymes: -æ??b?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English parable, from Old French parable, parabole, from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek ???????? (parabol?, “comparison”). Doublet of parabola, parole, and palaver.

Noun

parable (plural parables)

1. A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.

Related terms

• palaver
• parabola
• parabole
• parole

Translations

Verb

parable (third-person singular simple present parables, present participle parabling, simple past and past participle parabled)

1. (transitive) To represent by parable.

See also

• fable
• allegory
• pericope
• simile

Etymology 2

From Latin par?bilis, from par?re (“to prepare, procure”).

Adjective

parable (comparative more parable, superlative most parable)

1. (obsolete) That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.

Further reading

• parable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rapable

French

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin parare (“to ward off”)

Adjective

parable (plural parables)

1. preventable (able to be or fit to be prevented)

Related terms

• parade
• parer (verb)

Anagrams

• palabre

Middle English

Alternative forms

• parabole, parabol, parabele, parabyl, parabyll, parabil

Etymology

From Old French parable, parabole, from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek ???????? (parabol?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?ra?bl?/, /pa?ra?b?l/, /?parab?l/

Noun

parable (plural parables)

1. A parable or narrative (usually teaching or illustrating a lesson)
2. A maxim or byword, a short phrase or quip teaching or illustrating a lesson.
3. A oration or session of speaking, especially one full of invective; a diatribe or rant.

Descendants

• English: parable
• Scots: parable
• Yola: parboles (plural)

References

• “par??ble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.