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 Latin) IPA(key): [oe̯.kɔˈnɔ.mɪ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.koˈnɔː.mi.kus]
Adjective
oeconomicus (feminine oeconomica, neuter oeconomicum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) domestic economy
- orderly, methodical
- economic
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | oeconomicus | oeconomica | oeconomicum | oeconomicī | oeconomicae | oeconomica | |
| genitive | oeconomicī | oeconomicae | oeconomicī | oeconomicōrum | oeconomicārum | oeconomicōrum | |
| dative | oeconomicō | oeconomicae | 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 (obsolete)
- 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.