paroemiology

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˌɹiːmiˈɒlədʒi/

Noun

paroemiology (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of paremiology
   • 1978, David Kunzle, “World Upside Down: The Iconography of a European Broadsheet Type”, in Barbara A. Babcock, editor, The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society, Cornell University Press, page 72:

     Paroemiology, or the study and collection of proverbs, is a morass into which one enters at one's peril.