oeconomicus Latin · revision 4488

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Cicero|origins=grc οἶκος, grc νόμος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [oe̯.kɔˈnɔ.mɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [e.koˈnɔː.mi.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''oeconomicus''' (feminine oeconomica, neuter oeconomicum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|οἰκονομικός|tr=oikonomikós|t=of household management]],^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) from [[m|grc|οἰκονόμος|tr=oikonómos|t=household manager]], from [[m|grc|οἶκος|tr=oîkos|t=house]] and [[m|grc|νόμος|tr=nómos|t=law, rule]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero, in On Duties and in On Old Age, refers to Xenophon's work on household management, the ''Oeconomicus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant relating to household management, and as a masculine noun it was the title of Xenophon's treatise, as in Cicero, Columella and Gellius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Quintilian uses it of the orderly arrangement of a whole case by a speaker, and so it came to mean methodical.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In British medieval Latin it was used of the household, and as a noun of a steward, and in the plural of economics.^(DMLBS) [[en|economic]] is recorded in the 1590s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero names Xenophon's ''Oeconomicus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of the arrangement of a case.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English ''economic'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of household management, [[m|en|economic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Orderly, methodical.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''Oeconomicus'', the title of a treatise by [[m|en|Xenophon]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|steward]]; in the plural, economics.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[oeconomia]]

+ * [[en|economic]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}