Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /parymía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /parymía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paɾimía/

Noun

παροιμίᾱ • ‎(paroimíā) f ‎(genitive παροιμίας); first declension

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

Inflection

Descendants

• English: paroemia
• Spanish: paremia

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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 632.
  • proverb idem, page 654.
  • saying idem, page 736.

Greek

Noun

παροιμία • ‎(paroimía) f ‎(plural παροιμίες)

1. proverb

Declension

See also

• ρήση f ‎(rísi, “saying”)