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economie

economie

See also: économie and êconomie

Dutch

Noun

economie f ‎(plural economieën, diminutive economietje n)

  1. economics
  2. economy

Italian

Noun

economie f

  1. plural of economia

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • iconomie (dated)

Etymology

Borrowing from French économie, Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία ‎(oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”).

Noun

economie f ‎(plural economii)

  1. economy
  2. economics
  3. (especially in the plural) savings

Declension

Etymology

From Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία ‎(oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος ‎(oîkos, “house”) + νόμος ‎(nómos, “law”) (surface analysis eco- +‎ -nomie). The first recorded sense of the word economie, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: eco‧no‧mie

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