"paroemia" meaning in English

See paroemia in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: paroemias [plural]
Etymology: From Latin paroemia (“proverb”), from Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía, “proverb”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|paroemia||proverb}} Latin paroemia (“proverb”), {{der|en|grc|παροιμία||proverb}} Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía, “proverb”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} paroemia (plural paroemias)
  1. A proverb. Synonyms: paremia, parœmia [archaic] Derived forms: paroemiography, paroemiology Related terms: paroemiac
    Sense id: en-paroemia-en-noun-OZss~TV5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for paroemia meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "paroemia",
        "4": "",
        "5": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin paroemia (“proverb”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "παροιμία",
        "4": "",
        "5": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía, “proverb”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin paroemia (“proverb”), from Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía, “proverb”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paroemias",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "paroemia (plural paroemias)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "paroemiography"
        },
        {
          "word": "paroemiology"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A proverb."
      ],
      "id": "en-paroemia-en-noun-OZss~TV5",
      "links": [
        [
          "proverb",
          "proverb"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "paroemiac"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "paremia"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "parœmia"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paroemia"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "paroemiography"
    },
    {
      "word": "paroemiology"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "paroemia",
        "4": "",
        "5": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin paroemia (“proverb”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "παροιμία",
        "4": "",
        "5": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía, “proverb”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin paroemia (“proverb”), from Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía, “proverb”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paroemias",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "paroemia (plural paroemias)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "paroemiac"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms derived from Latin"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A proverb."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "proverb",
          "proverb"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "paremia"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "parœmia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paroemia"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.