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Latin
Etymology
Derived from prō- (“for, on behalf of”) + verbum (“word”) + -ium (“nominal suffix”).
Pronunciation
Noun
prōverbium n (genitive prōverbiī or prōverbī); second declension
- proverb, saying, saw, maxim, adage
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “proverbium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proverbium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proverbium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- as the proverb says: ut est in proverbio
- to pass into a proverb: in proverbii consuetudinem or simply in proverbium venire
- to be used as a proverb: proverbii locum obtinere (Tusc. 4. 16. 36)
- this is a proverb among the Greeks: hoc est Graecis hominibus in proverbio
- that Greek proverb contains an excellent lesson: bene illo Graecorum proverbio praecipitur
- an old proverb tells us not to..: vetamur vetere proverbio
- an old proverb which every one knows: proverbium vetustate or sermone tritum (vid. sect. II. 3, note tritus...)
- “proverbium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers