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Your word for today is: paroemiographer | paremiographer, n.

paroemiographer | paremiographer, n.
[‘ A writer or collector of proverbs.’]
Pronunciation: Brit. /pəˌriːmɪˈɒɡrəfə/,  U.S. /pəˌrimiˈɑɡrəfər/
Forms:  18 paraemiographer,   18– paremiographer,   18– paroemiographer.
Etymology: <  paroemia n. + -ographer comb. form, probably after
post-classical Latin paroemiographus writer or collector of proverbs
(a1536 in Erasmus) or its etymon Hellenistic Greek παροιμιογράϕος.
Compare French parémiographe (c1842). Compare slightly earlier
paroemiography n.
  A writer or collector of proverbs.
1823  I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. I. 420 The royal
paræmiographer classes among their [sc. the sages'] studies, that of
‘understanding a proverb and the interpretation’.
1824  I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) I. 439 England
may boast of no inferior paræmiographers.
1832  W. Motherwell in  A. Henderson Sc. Prov. p. xiii, The first of
our paræmiographers was Archbishop Beaton.
1889 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 10 110 The notice..appears to be extracted
from a work of the paroemiographer Demon.
1954  R. Strömberg  (title) Greek proverbs. A collection of proverbs
and proverbial phrases which are not listed by the ancient and
Byzantine paroemiographers.
2000 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 130 324 The closest parallel outside
of Egypt is furnished by the paroemiographer Zenobius.

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