paremiography

English

Etymology

paremia +‎ -graphy

Noun

paremiography (uncountable)

  1. The collection 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.
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