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Russian
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Etymology
First attested in year 1658. Possibly borrowed from French économie, from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía). See also Домострой (Domostroj), Old East Slavic икономиꙗ (ikonomija).
Pronunciation
Noun
эконо́мия • (ekonómija) f inan (genitive эконо́мии, nominative plural эконо́мии, genitive plural эконо́мий, relational adjective экономи́ческий)
- economy, saving (frugal use of resources)
- Synonyms: бережли́вость (berežlívostʹ), экономность (ekonomnostʹ); сбереже́ние (sberežénije), сохране́ние (soxranénije)
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References
- ^ Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “Домострой”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- ^ Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1979), “икономия”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), numbers 6 (зипунъ – иянуарий), Moscow: Nauka, page 221
Further reading
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “экономия”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 440