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A proverb (from Latin: proverbium) or an adage is a simple, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Proverbs are often metaphorical and are an example of formulaic language.
Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship is an academic journal covering paremiology, the study of proverbs. Each volume includes articles on proverbs and proverbial expressions, book reviews, a bibliography of recent proverb scholarship, and a list of recently (re)published proverb collections.
Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
ut proverbium loquitur vetus... you know what they say... Lit: As the old proverb says... ut res magis valeat quam pereat: that the matter may have effect rather than fail [7] ut retro: as backwards: Or "as on the back side"; thus, "as on the previous page" (cf. ut supra). ut Roma cadit, sic omnis terra: as Rome falls, so [falls] the whole world
Small sampling of books that Mieder has written or edited, Proverbium on shelf in rear. He is most well known as a scholar of paremiology, the study of proverbs, Alan Dundes labeling him "Magister Proverbium, paremiologist without peer". [2] He also produced many bibliographies, [3] both articles and volumes, on several topics within paremiology.
Paremiology can be dated back as far as Aristotle. Paremiography, on the other hand, is the collection of proverbs.The proverb scholar Wolfgang Mieder defines the term proverb as follows:
Books of proverb collections, examples of paremiography. Paremiography (from Greek παροιμία - paroimía, "proverb, maxim, saw" [1] and γράφω - grafō, "write, inscribe" [2]) is the study of the collection and writing of proverbs.
With encouragement from Archer Taylor [2] he founded the journal Proverbium: Bulletin d'Information sur les Recherches Parémiologiques, published from 1965 to 1975 by the Society for Finnish Literature, which was later restarted as Proverbium: International Yearbook of Proverb Scholarship. He was a member of the noble family Granfelt, but his ...