экономия

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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),[1] Old East Slavic икономиꙗ (ikonomija).[2]

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Noun

эконо́мия (ekonómijaf inan (genitive эконо́мии, nominative plural эконо́мии, genitive plural эконо́мий, relational adjective экономи́ческий)

  1. economy, saving (frugal use of resources)
    Synonyms: бережли́вость (berežlívostʹ), экономность (ekonomnostʹ); сбереже́ние (sberežénije), сохране́ние (soxranénije)

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Descendants

  • Georgian: ეკონომია (eḳonomia)

References

  1. ^ Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “Домострой”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  2. ^ Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1979), “икономия”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 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, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 440