proverbium

== Latin == === Etymology === Derived from prō- (“for, on behalf of”) +‎ verbum (“word”) +‎ -ium (“nominal suffix”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [proːˈwɛr.bi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [proˈvɛr.bi.um] === Noun === prōverbium n (genitive prōverbiī or prōverbī); second declension proverb, saying, saw, maxim, adage ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: proverbi Old French: proverbe → English: proverb French: proverbe Italian: proverbio Portuguese: provérbio Romanian: proverb Spanish: proverbio === References === “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. “proverbium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers