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Where does “parsimonioso” come from?

parsimonioso (Italian) comes from Italian parsimonia, from Latin parsimōnia, from Latin -monia, from Latin -monium, from Proto-Indo-European -monyom, from Proto-Indo-European -mō — Creates agent nouns from verbs.

parsimonioso (Italian): thrifty, frugal, parsimonious, sparing

Definitions

  1. thrifty, frugal, parsimonious, sparing

Ancestry of “parsimonioso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianparsimoniathrift, thriftiness, frugality, sparingness,...
2Latinparsimōnia—
3Latin-moniaForms abstract nouns from adjectives and possibly...
4Latin-moniumForms collective nouns and nouns designating...
5Proto-Indo-European-monyom—
6Proto-Indo-European-mōCreates agent nouns from verbs
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