aphorism
‘concise statement of a principle’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. afforysme < F. aphorisme < O.F. aufforisme < La.Lat. aphorismus < Gk. aphorismos ‘definition; short, pithy sentence’ < aphorizein ‘to mark off, divide’ < apo- ‘from’ + horizein ‘to bound’ < afuh < apo- < Tamil ava