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Aphorism (W3)
Der engl. "Aphorism" (seit 1528) geht wie der dt. "Aphorismus" über frz. "aphorisme" und lat. "aphorismus" zurück auf griech. "aphorismòs" = "Abgrenzung", "Unterscheidung", "Lehrsatz", griech. "aphorizein" = "abgrenzen", "definieren". Er setzt sich zusammen aus dem griech. "apó" = "weg-" und dem griech. "hóros" = "Grenze". Und da findet man auch den "Horizont", der auf das griech. "horizón" = "Grenzlinie" zurückgeht, und weiter auf "horizein" = " begrenzen".Zum ersten Mal taucht er in den "Aphorismen" von Hippocrates auf.
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24.03.2008: We found 36 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word aphorism.
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What do you call a saying such as "egg on your face"? I get mixed up between "idioms", "colloquialisms", "slang", "jargon", "euphemisms", "clichés", "metaphors", "catch phrases", "aphorisms", and "similes".
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1 : a concise statement of a principle
2 : a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment : adage
"Aphorism" may be a literary term now, but it was originally used in the world of medicine.
Credit Hippocrates, the Greek physician regarded as the father of modern medicine, with influencing our use of the word. He used "aphorismos" (a Greek ancestor of "aphorism" that means "definition", "aphorism") in titling a book outlining his principles on the diagnosis and treatment of disease. That volume offered many examples that helped to define the literary type, beginning with the statement that starts the book's introduction: "Life is short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult." English speakers continued using the term mainly for medical maxims until the 1700s, when it broadened to cover principles in other fields.
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- "An aphorism never coincides with the ..." Karl Kraus
- "The aphorism, the apophthegm, in which ..." Friedrich Nietzsche
- "Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, ..." F. H. Bradley
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