Definitions
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- noun The study of proverbs.
Etymologies
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From the obsolete paroemia ("proverb"), paremia + -ology, from Latin paroemia, from Ancient Greek παροιμία.
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The collection and study of proverbs is called paremiology (Greek paroimia = proverb).
Orangeville Citizen 2010
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Looking into the history of collections of proverbs – the historical antecedent to those online dictionaries of quotes – I’ve also just learned a new word: paremiography, which is the study of the collection and writing of proverbs (and the related paremiology, the wider study of such expressions).
Advice comes too late, 1670 Andrew Chapman 2023
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