apothegm

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From French apophthegme or Medieval Latin apothegma, from Ancient Greek ἀπόφθεγμα (apóphthegma), from ἀποφθέγγομαι (apophthéngomai, “speak out”).

His definitions and apothegms we meet every-where. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Madame Gréville's final apothegm had suggested one of them. — The Real Adventure, Henry Kitchell Webster
It was a volume of Novalis, containing letters and apothegms. — Demian, Hermann Hesse

aphorism, apophthegm

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