"economy" in seven languages
Meaningeconomy
Spanish
economía
/ekonoˈmia/
fem.learned
French
économie
/ekɔnɔmi/
fem.learned
Italian
economia
/ekonoˈmia/
fem.learned
Portuguese
economia
/ekonoˈmiɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
economie
/ekonoˈmie/
fem.learned
Catalan
economia
/əkunuˈmiə/
fem.learned
English
economy
/ɪˈkɑnəmi/
from Latin/French · Latin oeconomia, from Greek
English → ItalianeconomyeconomiaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
OECONOMIAM‘household management (Greek oikonomía)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Greek oikonomía was running a household (oîkos 'house' + nómos 'rule'). All four took it from written Latin; the sense of a whole country's economy came much later.
English relatives: economic, economist, economical
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In a sentence
- esLa economía crece despacio.
- frL'économie progresse lentement.
- itL'economia cresce lentamente.
- ptA economia está crescendo devagar.
- roEconomia crește încet.
- caL'economia creix a poc a poc.
- enThe economy is growing slowly.
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