oeconomia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oe̯.koˈno.mi.a/, [oe̯kɔˈnɔmiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.koˈno.mi.a/, [ekoˈnɔːmiä]

Noun

oeconomia f (genitive oeconomiae); first declension

1. The management of household affairs; arrangement, economy.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oeconomia	oeconomiae
Genitive	oeconomiae	oeconomiārum
Dative	oeconomiae	oeconomiīs
Accusative	oeconomiam	oeconomiās
Ablative	oeconomiā	oeconomiīs
Vocative	oeconomia	oeconomiae

Related terms

• oeconomicus
• oeconomus

Descendants

• Asturian: economía
• Catalan: economia
• Galician: economía
• Italian: economia
• Ladin: economia
• Ladino: ekonomia (איקונומיה)
• Occitan: economia
• Portuguese: economia
• Sicilian: canumìa, ecunumìa, economia
• Spanish: economía
• → Albanian: ekonomia
• → Basque: ekonomia
• → Bulgarian: иконо́мия (ikonómija)
• → Czech: ekonomie
• → Danish: økonomi
• → Dutch: oekonomie
  • > Afrikaans: ekonomie (inherited)
• → English: economy
• → Esperanto: ekonomio
• → Finnish: ekonomi
• → French: économie, œconomie (obsolete)
  • → Haitian Creole: ekonomi
  • → Romanian: economie
  • → Russian: эконо́мия (ekonómija), эконо́мія (ekonómija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Georgian: ეკონომია (eḳonomia)
  • → Turkish: ekonomi
• → German: Ökonomie
  • → Yiddish: עקאָנאָמיע (ekonomye)
• → Ido: ekonomio
• → Indonesian: ekonomi
• → Interlingua: economia
• → Latvian: ekonomija
• → Luxembourgish: Economie
• → Macedonian: економија (ekonomija)
• → Norman: êconomie
• → Northern Kurdish: ekonomî
• → Northern Sami: ekonomiija
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: økonomi
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: økonomi
• → Papiamentu: ekonomia
• → Polish: ekonomia
• → Saterland Frisian: Ökonomie
• → Scottish Gaelic: eaconomaidh
• → Serbo-Croatian: ekonòmija/еконо̀мија
• → Slovene: ekonomíja
• → Swedish: ekonomi
• → West Frisian: ekonomy

References

• “oeconomia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oeconomia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• oeconomia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.