paremiography

English edit

Alternative forms edit

paroemiography, (archaic) parœmiography

Etymology edit

From paremia +‎ -o- +‎ -graphy.^[1]

Noun edit

paremiography (uncountable)

The collecting of proverbs.
- 2008, Wolfgang Mieder, Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 233:
  […] with Gyula Paczolay's magisterial collection of European Proverbs in 55 languages (1997) being the magnum opus of modern comparative paremiography.

Related terms edit

References edit

^ “paroemiography | paremiography, n.”, in OED Online ⁠‎^[1], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-11-02.

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