παροιμία

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).

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

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

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

• “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, 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.

From Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía).

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

παροιμία • (paroimía) f (plural παροιμίες)

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

• ρήση f (rísi, “saying”)

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