Where does “parsimonia” come from?
parsimonia (Italian) comes from Latin parsimōnia, from Latin -monia, from Latin -monium, from Proto-Indo-European -monyom, from Proto-Indo-European -mō — Creates agent nouns from verbs.
parsimonia (Italian): thrift, thriftiness, frugality, sparingness,...
Definitions
- thrift, thriftiness, frugality, sparingness,...
Ancestry of “parsimonia”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | parsimōnia | frugality, thrift, parsimony |
| 2 | Latin | -monia | Forms abstract nouns from adjectives and possibly... |
| 3 | Latin | -monium | Forms collective nouns and nouns designating... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -monyom | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -mō | Creates agent nouns from verbs |