parsimonia

Italian

Noun

parsimonia f (plural parsimonie)

1. thrift, thriftiness, frugality, sparingness, parsimony

Related terms

• parsimonioso

Anagrams

• inaspriamo

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Latin

Etymology

Alteration of parcimōnia, from parcō +‎ -mōnia, influenced by forms in pars- from that verb.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /par.siˈmoː.ni.a/, [pärs̠ɪˈmoːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /par.siˈmo.ni.a/, [pärsiˈmɔːniä]

Noun

parsimōnia f (genitive parsimōniae); first declension

1. frugality, thrift, parsimony
   • Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum; Paradox VI, 49

     O di immortales! non intellegunt homines, quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia.

     O immortal gods! People do not understand how great a revenue parsimony can be.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	parsimōnia	parsimōniae
Genitive	parsimōniae	parsimōniārum
Dative	parsimōniae	parsimōniīs
Accusative	parsimōniam	parsimōniās
Ablative	parsimōniā	parsimōniīs
Vocative	parsimōnia	parsimōniae

Descendants

• English: parsimony
• Italian: parsimonia
• Spanish: parsimonia

References

• “parsimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “parsimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parsimonia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• parsimonia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Spanish

Noun

parsimonia f (plural parsimonias)

1. calmness

Derived terms

• parsimonioso