proverbium
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from prō- (“for, on behalf of”) + verbum (“word”) + -ium (“nominal suffix”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /proːˈu̯er.bi.um/, [proːˈu̯ɛrbiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈver.bi.um/, [proˈvɛrbium]
Noun
[edit]prōverbium n (genitive prōverbiī or prōverbī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | prōverbium | prōverbia |
genitive | prōverbiī prōverbī1 |
prōverbiōrum |
dative | prōverbiō | prōverbiīs |
accusative | prōverbium | prōverbia |
ablative | prōverbiō | prōverbiīs |
vocative | prōverbium | prōverbia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: proverbi
- Old French: proverbe
- Italian: proverbio
- Portuguese: provérbio
- Romanian: proverb
- Spanish: proverbio
References
[edit]- “proverbium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proverbium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proverbium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- as the proverb says: ut est in proverbio
- to pass into a proverb: in proverbii consuetudinem or simply in proverbium venire
- to be used as a proverb: proverbii locum obtinere (Tusc. 4. 16. 36)
- this is a proverb among the Greeks: hoc est Graecis hominibus in proverbio
- that Greek proverb contains an excellent lesson: bene illo Graecorum proverbio praecipitur
- an old proverb tells us not to..: vetamur vetere proverbio
- an old proverb which every one knows: proverbium vetustate or sermone tritum (vid. sect. II. 3, note tritus...)
- as the proverb says: ut est in proverbio
- “proverbium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *werh₁-
- Latin terms prefixed with pro-
- Latin terms suffixed with -ium
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook