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παροιμ-ία

paroimia

proverb, saying

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Where it lives

2 Peter 1 · 9.23/10k
Siracides 5 · 2.71/10k
John 4 · 2.62/10k
Laches 2 · 2.61/10k
Rhetoric 11 · 2.56/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k
Symposium 3 · 1.72/10k
Against Aristogeiton 1 1 · 1.49/10k
Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. παροιμία · paroimia — Beekes

παροιμία [f.] ‘proverb, saying’ (Att., etc.), also ‘incidental remark’ (Herod. 2, 61), ‘comparison’ (Ev. Jo.). 4GR> *DER παροιμιώδης ‘proverbial’ (Plu.), -ἰακός ‘id.’, also name of a meter (Plu., Heph.); -ἰάζομαι, -w [v.] ‘to speak in proverbs’ (PI. Arist.). *ETYM An abstract from πάρ-οιμος ‘by the zoad, neighbor’ or nap’ οἶμον, olpny; semantically unclear. Traditionally derived from οἶμος ‘course, way’, e.g. by … — [Beekes, s.v. παροιμία, p. 1205]

2. παροιμία · paroimia — Frisk

παροιμία f. “Sprichwort, Spruch’ (att. usw.), auch "Nebenbemerkung’ (Herod. 2, 61; vgl. Headlam z.St.), “Gleichnis’ (Ev. Jo.; vgl. Wackernagel IF 31, 265 [= Kl. Schr. 2, 1242] A.1). Davon παροιμ-ιώδης "spriehwörtlich’ (Plu. u.a.), -ıaxög ‘ds.’, auch N. eines Versmaßes (Plu., Heph. u.a.), -ἰάζομαι, -w “in Sprichwörtern reden usw.’ (Pl., Arist. usw.). Abstraktbildung von πάρ-οιμος od. παρ᾽ οἶμον, οἴμην; semantisch … — [Frisk, s.v. παροιμία, p. 1448]

3. παροιμ-ία · paroim-ia — LSJ

proverb, maxim, saw, the saying, the Proverbs

proverb, maxim, saw, A. Ag. 264, S. Aj. 664, Ar. Th. 528, etc.; κατὰ τὴν π. as the saying goes, Pl. Smp. 222b; τὸ κατὰ τὴν π. λεγόμενον Id. Sph. 261c ; καθάπερ ἡ π. Pl.Com. 174.3 : in pl., of the Proverbs of Solomon, LXX

2 figure, comparison

figure, comparison, Ev.Jo. 10.6, al.

3 digression, incidental remark

digression, incidental remark, Herod. 2.61, Hsch., Phot.

In the wild

παροιμία · paroimia Aeschylus, Agamemnon 264–265
παροιμίαν · paroimian Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1 (DIORISIS sentence 392)
παροιμία · paroimia Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
παροιμίαν · paroimian Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
παροιμία · paroimia Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
παροιμίαν · paroimian Aristotle, Metaphysics book 1 (DIORISIS sentence 75)

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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