Parabola/ verbumcausas de una elección
- Ruiz Arzalluz, Iñigo (coord.)
- Martínez Sobrino, Alejandro (ed. lit.)
- Muñoz García de Iturrospe, Maite (ed. lit.)
- Ortigosa Egiraun, Iñaki (ed. lit.)
- San Juan Manso, Enara (ed. lit.)
- Valcárcel Martínez, Vitalino (hom.)
Publisher: Servicio de Publicaciones ; Universidad del País Vasco = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
ISBN: 978-84-908-2048-3
Year of publication: 2014
Volume: 1
Pages: 459-470
Type: Book chapter
Sustainable development goals
Abstract
The aim of this paper is the description of the origins and evolution of the meaning of parabola. I intend to show the reasons and circumstances which brought about its superseding, in all Romance languages, verbum, the classical term to express the idea of �word�. I will examine, first, some Vulgata texts in which the context indicates parabola was used in the sense of �word�, �speech�, �proverb� and, also, �parable.� Next I will try to explain the reasons behind the disappearance of verbum. Traditionally it has been accepted that its religious sense motivated it. Nevertheless, I believe orality, the spoken language was the force behind: a new, more sonorous word, was more appealing to colloquial speech.