Winged word

As a popular saying a recyclable to a specific source citation is called, which has found a phrase input in the common parlance. Among them are often scarce formulations of complex matters or those of life experiences that are " to the point " aptly. Winged Words can, inter alia, have the form of aphorisms, witticisms, gnomes, maxims, aphorisms and proverbs.

Origin

Source are often Latin or Greek phrases, as well as Luther's Bible translation. An example is " Winged Words " (Greek: ἔπεα πτερόεντα - EPEA pteroenta ) itself, it comes in the Iliad 46 times in the Odyssey before 58 times and says spoken words that reach the ear of the listener on the wings there.

Conceptual history

The Middle High German poet Heinrich von Meissen referred to the saying as full-fledged word as a word, have grown the wing.

Klopstock used in his epic The Messiah of the 1742 formulation:

" Winged words he said to them, then sent ' he made ​​under the deviant people."

Johann Heinrich Voss also used these words in his famous Homer adaptations. You are calque of ἔπεα πτερόεντα " words with wings provided ". Only since the advent of George Büchmanns Zitatensammlung Winged words in 1864, the term is used in the sense of

" Literary assignable, subrogated in the general vocabulary of the people, generally familiar phrases. "

Büchmanns successor Walter Robert - Tornow clarified the term in 1884, which he edited 14th edition

" A popular saying is a more widely the motherland permanently services mentioned above statement, expression or name of any language, whose historical creator or his literary origin is detectable"