adage: [16] Adage was borrowed, via French, from Latin adagium ‘maxim, proverb’. This seems to have been formed from a variant of aio ‘I say’ plus the prefīx ad- ‘to’. In the 16th and 17th centuries an alternative version, adagy, existed.
adage (n.)
"brief, familiar proverb," 1540s, Middle French adage, from Latin adagium "adage, proverb," apparently from adagio, from ad- "to" (see ad-) + *agi-, root of aio "I say," from PIE *ag- "to speak." But Tucker thinks the second element is rather ago "set in motion, drive, urge."
例文
1. The adage "Trade is better than aid "is clearly of great relevance to agriculture.
「貿易は援助よりも優れている」という格言は農業にとって明らかに適切である。
2.But the old adage that men grow into office has not proved true in my experience.
しかし、私の経験によると、人々のいわゆる職場が人材を作るという古い言葉は正しくありません。
3.Answering probbly an adage :The day fails the person wishes.
は、天が願いをかなえないという古い言葉に対応しているかもしれない。
4.Han Jia,I think both of us have followed this adage .
韓佳、私たち二人はそうしていると思います。
5.You 've heard the adage many times about turning lemons into lemonade,right?