The Zürau Aphorisms
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846550096 (1846550092)
Publish date: December 14th 2006
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
(original review, 2009)The Portuguese etymological dictionary of Jose Pedro Machado informs that the word aphorism derives from the Greek and arrived at the Portuguese language through late Latin aphorismu-, with the meaning of "limitation, brief definition, sentence". It adds that, in time (already...