The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπαροιμία“proverb”
- Latin · borrowed fromparoemia“proverb”
- English todayparoemia
From Latin paroemia (“proverb”), from Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía, “proverb”).
Words from the same roots
Latinparoemia all →
paremiology
Ancient Greekπαροιμία all →
paremiology
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.