paramiographer means A collector or writer of proverbs. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “paramiographer” is a great word
PARAMIOGRAPHER — [Noun] A collector or writer of proverbs. From Ancient Greek παροιμίᾱ (paroimíā, “proverb”) + -γράφος (-gráphos, “writer”, from γράφω gráphō, “to write”). Unlike a paroemiologist, who dissects a proverb's history and usage, or an aphorist, who forges new, personal truths, the paramiographer is a scribe of the communal. It is the hand transcribing a grandmother's muttered adage, the ear indexing a hundred variations on counting unhatched chicks, the mind preserving the oral law of a village—a testament to the human compulsion to fix fleeting experience into portable, repeatable form.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παροιμίᾱ (paroimíā, “proverb”) + -grapher.
noun
- A collector or writer of proverbs.“A collection of Danish proverbs, accompanied by a French translation, was printed at Copenhagen, in a quarto volume, 1761. England may boast of no inferior paramiographers. The grave and judicious Camden, the religious Herbert, the entertaining Howel, the facetious Fuller, and the laborious Ray, with others, have preserved our national sayings.”