Hyperbole

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late Middle English: via Latin from Greek huperbolē (see hyperbola).

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From Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή(huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ(hupér, “above”) + βάλλω(bállō, “I throw”). Doublet of hyperbola.

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hyperbole (n.)

"obvious exaggeration in rhetoric," early 15c., from Latin hyperbole, from Greek hyperbole "exaggeration, extravagance," literally "a throwing beyond," from hyper- "beyond" (see hyper-) + bole "a throwing, a casting, the stroke of a missile, bolt, beam," from bol-, nominative stem of ballein "to throw" (from PIE root *gwele- "to throw, reach"). Rhetorical sense is found in Aristotle and Isocrates. Greek had a verb, hyperballein, "to throw over or beyond."