myEtymology.com: French etymology of économie

Etymology of the French word économie

the French word économie

derived from the Latin word oeconomia (arrangement, division; economy)

derived from the Greek word oikonomia, οἰκονομία (administration (of a household or estate); specially, a (religious) 'economy')

using the Greek suffix -nomia, -νομία

derived from the Greek word nomos, νόμος (law; name; law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle))

derived from the Greek word nemein, νέμω

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *nem-

derived from the Greek word oikonomos, οἰκονόμος (a house-distributor (manager), or overseer; an employee in that capacity; by extension, a fiscal agent (treasurer); figuratively, a preacher (of the Gospel))

derived from the Greek word nemein, νέμω

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *nem-

derived from the Greek word oikos, οἶκος (a dwelling (more or less extensive, literal or figurative); by implication, a family (more or less related, literally or figuratively))

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weik-

derived from the Latin word oikonomos

Date

The earliest known usage of économie in French dates from the 14th century.

Derivations in French

économiste, microéconomie, économiser, bibliothéconomie, macroéconomie, micro-économie, économètre, économétrie

Derivations in other languages

Romanian economie

Cognates

Dutch economie, English economy, German Ökonomie, Italian economia, Lithuanian ekonomija, Polish ekonomia, Russian экoнoмия, Swedish ekonomi