παροιμία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πάροιμος (pároimos, “by the road, neighbor”) +‎ -ία (-ía), or from παρα- (para-, “next, near, alongside, nearby, nigh”) +‎ οἴμη (oímē, “song, tale”) +‎ -ία (-ía, feminine suffix of abstraction).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.roi̯.mí.aː/ → /pa.ryˈmi.a/ → /pa.riˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.roi̯.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pa.ryˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pa.ryˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pa.ryˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pa.riˈmi.a/

Noun

πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱ • (paroimíā) f (genitive πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. a byword, saying, proverb, maxim
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 264
   1. a dark saying, parable

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱ hē paroimíā	τὼ πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱ tṑ paroimíā	αἱ πᾰροιμῐ́αι hai paroimíai
Genitive	τῆς πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱς tês paroimíās	τοῖν πᾰροιμῐ́αιν toîn paroimíain	τῶν πᾰροιμῐῶν tôn paroimiôn
Dative	τῇ πᾰροιμῐ́ᾳ têi paroimíāi	τοῖν πᾰροιμῐ́αιν toîn paroimíain	ταῖς πᾰροιμῐ́αις taîs paroimíais
Accusative	τὴν πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱν tḕn paroimíān	τὼ πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱ tṑ paroimíā	τᾱ̀ς πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s paroimíās
Vocative	πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱ paroimíā	πᾰροιμῐ́ᾱ paroimíā	πᾰροιμῐ́αι paroimíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲡⲁⲣⲟⲓⲙⲓⲁ (paroimia)
• Greek: παροιμία (paroimía)
• → Latin: paroemia
  • → Catalan: parèmia
  • → English: paroemia
  • → Spanish: paremia

Further reading

• “παροιμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “παροιμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• παροιμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3942 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adage idem, page 10.
  • aphorism idem, page 34.
  • gnome idem, page 364.
  • maxim idem, page 519.
  • precept idem, page 634.
  • proverb idem, page 654.
  • saying idem, page 736.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɾiˈmia/
• Hyphenation: πα‧ροι‧μί‧α

Noun

παροιμία • (paroimía) f (plural παροιμίες)

1. proverb, saying, adage, maxim (phrase expressing a basic truth)

Declension

Declension of παροιμία

	singular	plural
nominative	παροιμία •	παροιμίες •
genitive	παροιμίας •	παροιμιών •
accusative	παροιμία •	παροιμίες •
vocative	παροιμία •	παροιμίες •

Synonyms

• ρήση f (rísi, “saying”)

Derived terms

• παροιμιακός (paroimiakós, “proverbial”) (adjective)
• παροιμιώδης (paroimiódis, “proverbial”) (adjective)