paremiography
English
Etymology
paremia + -graphy
Noun
paremiography (uncountable)
- 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.
Related terms
- paremiology