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Parallel Para French Parallèle Latin Greek Allelois 6091.Parallel

正面 6091.parallel
英 ['pærəlel]美 ['pærəlɛl]

背面
释义:
n. 平行线;对比vt. 使…与…平行adj. 平行的;类似的,相同的
例句:
1. Parallel lines will never meet no matter how far extended.无论延伸多长,平行线永不相交。

1、par- / para- "beside" + allel-.2、字面意思就是:beside one another.
parallel 平行的,并列的来自希腊语parallelos,并列,平行,para-,在旁,在周围,-allel,改变,另外的,词源同else,alternate.即在旁边的另外一条,引申词义平行的,并列的。
parallelparallel: [16] Etymologically, parallel simply means ‘beside each other’. It comes via French parallèle and Latin parallēlus from Greek parállēlos. This was a compound formed from pará ‘beside’ and allélōn ‘each other’, a derivative of állos ‘other’ (to which English else is distantly related).=> elseparallel (adj.)1540s, from Middle French parallèle (16c.) and directly from Latin parallelus, from Greek parallelos "parallel," from para allelois "beside one another," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + allelois "each other," from allos "other" (see alias (adv.)). As a noun from 1550s. Parallel bars as gymnastics apparatus are recorded from 1868.parallel (v.)1590s, from parallel (n.)."

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