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See also:pro-verbandProverbs

English

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchproverbe, fromLatinproverbium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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proverb (pluralproverbs)

  1. A commonly used sentence expressing popular wisdom.
    Coordinate terms:epigram,idiom;see alsoThesaurus:saying
    Near-synonyms:aphorism,maxim,adage,saw,saying,apothegm,byword,paroemia,sententia(Latin)
    • 2021 [1996], Colin S.K. Walker,Scottish Proverbs, Edinburgh, Scotland: Birlinn,→ISBN:
      The definition of aproverb is no simple matter and has occupied scholars from Ancient Greece until the present day.Lord John Russell defined theproverb as ‘the wisdom of many and the wit of one’. The celebrated Spanish writerCervantes said that aproverb is ‘a short sentence drawn from long experience’. Generally it is accepted that aproverb is a short, pithy traditional saying, which contains some widely accepted knowledge, or which offers advice or presents a moral. This present volume also contains many phrases and sayings which are notstrictlyproverbs as we use the term today, although we may still think of them as such. This situation arises because, prior to the eighteenth century it was common for the term to include metaphors, similes, and descriptive epithets.[…] The essence of aproverb lies in it being a ‘traditional saying’ i.e. something which has commonly passed from one generation to another by word of mouth.[…] In his bookOn the Lessons in Proverbs (1852), Richard Chevenix Trenchard says that there is one quality of the proverb which is the most essential of all: "… popularity, acceptance and adoption on the part of the people. Without this popularity, without these suffrages and this consent of the many, no saying, however seasoned with salt, however worthy on all these accounts to have become aproverb, however fulfilling all other its conditions, can yet be esteemed as such."
  2. (obsolete) Any commonly usedturn of phrase expressing ametaphor,simile, ordescriptiveepithet.[before 18th c.]
    • 2021 [1996], Colin S.K. Walker,Scottish Proverbs, Edinburgh, Scotland: Birlinn,→ISBN:
      The definition of aproverb is no simple matter and has occupied scholars from Ancient Greece until the present day.Lord John Russell defined theproverb as ‘the wisdom of many and the wit of one’. The celebrated Spanish writerCervantes said that aproverb is ‘a short sentence drawn from long experience’. Generally it is accepted that aproverb is a short, pithy traditional saying, which contains some widely accepted knowledge, or which offers advice or presents a moral. This present volume also contains many phrases and sayings which are notstrictlyproverbs as we use the term today, although we may still think of them as such. This situation arises because, prior to the eighteenth century it was common for the term to include metaphors, similes, and descriptive epithets.[…] The essence of aproverb lies in it being a ‘traditional saying’ i.e. something which has commonly passed from one generation to another by word of mouth.[…] In his bookOn the Lessons in Proverbs (1852), Richard Chevenix Trenchard says that there is one quality of the proverb which is the most essential of all: "… popularity, acceptance and adoption on the part of the people. Without this popularity, without these suffrages and this consent of the many, no saying, however seasoned with salt, however worthy on all these accounts to have become aproverb, however fulfilling all other its conditions, can yet be esteemed as such."
  3. (obsolete) Astriking orparadoxical assertion; an obscuresaying; anenigma; aparable.
  4. (obsolete) A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
  5. (obsolete) Adramaexemplifying a proverb.

Derived terms

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Translations

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phrase expressing a basic truth

Verb

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proverb (third-person singular simple presentproverbs,present participleproverbing,simple past and past participleproverbed)

  1. To write or utter proverbs.
  2. To name in, or as, a proverb.
    • 1671, John Milton,Samson Agonistes, lines203–205:
      Am I not sung andproverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?"
  3. To provide with a proverb.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“proverb”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinproverbium,Frenchproverbe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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proverb n (pluralproverbe)

  1. saying,proverb,maxim
    Synonyms:parimie,zicală,zicătoare
  2. (dated)proverb(drama exemplifying a proverb)

Declension

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Declension ofproverb
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativeproverbproverbulproverbeproverbele
genitive-dativeproverbproverbuluiproverbeproverbelor
vocativeproverbuleproverbelor

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