myEtymology.com: Italian etymology of economia

Etymology of the Italian word economia

the Italian word economia

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

Derivations in Italian

archiveconomia, diseconomia, macroeconomia, microeconomia, economizzare, econometria, econometro

Cognates

Dutch economie, English economy, French économie, German Ökonomie, Lithuanian ekonomija, Polish ekonomia, Russian экoнoмия, Swedish ekonomi