oeconomicus
Latin
Etymology
From oeconomia (“management of household affairs; arrangement, economy”) + -icus, from Ancient Greek οἰκονόμος (oikonómos), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house, home, estate”) + νόμος (nómos, “law, rule, authority”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /oe̯.koˈno.mi.kus/, [oe̯kɔˈnɔmɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.koˈno.mi.kus/, [ekoˈnɔːmikus]
Adjective
oeconomicus (feminine oeconomica, neuter oeconomicum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) domestic economy
- orderly, methodical
- economic
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | oeconomicus | oeconomica | oeconomicum | oeconomicī | oeconomicae | oeconomica | |
| Genitive | oeconomicī | oeconomicae | oeconomicī | oeconomicōrum | oeconomicārum | oeconomicōrum | |
| Dative | oeconomicō | oeconomicō | oeconomicīs | ||||
| Accusative | oeconomicum | oeconomicam | oeconomicum | oeconomicōs | oeconomicās | oeconomica | |
| Ablative | oeconomicō | oeconomicā | oeconomicō | oeconomicīs | |||
| Vocative | oeconomice | oeconomica | oeconomicum | oeconomicī | oeconomicae | oeconomica | |
Descendants
- Catalan: econòmic
- French: économique, œconomique
- Galician: económico
- Italian: economico
- Occitan: economic
- Portuguese: económico
- Spanish: económico
References
- “oeconomicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “oeconomicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- oeconomicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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