paremiography

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From paremia +‎ -o- +‎ -graphy.[1]

Noun

paremiography (uncountable)

  1. The collecting of proverbs.
    • 2008, Wolfgang Mieder, Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 233:
      […] with Gyula Paczolay's magisterial collection of European Proverbs in 55 languages (1997) being the magnum opus of modern comparative paremiography.

References
  1. “paroemiography | paremiography, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠‎, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-11-02.
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