parsimonia

Borrowed from Latin parsimōnia.

• IPA^(key): /par.siˈmɔ.nja/
• Rhymes: -ɔnja
• Hyphenation: par‧si‧mò‧nia

parsimonia f (plural parsimonie)

1. thrift, thriftiness, frugality, sparingness, parsimony

• parsimonioso

• parsimonia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• inaspriamo

Alteration of parcimōnia, from parcō (“to spare, save up”) +‎ -mōnia, modified after the verb's supine stem pars-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [par.sɪˈmoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [par.siˈmɔː.ni.a]

parsimōnia f (genitive parsimōniae); first declension

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

     Ō dī immortālēs! nōn intellegunt hominēs, quam magnum vectīgal sit parsimōnia.

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

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: parsimònia
• English: parsimony
• → French: parcimonie (learned)
• Galician: parsimonia
• Italian: parsimonia
• Portuguese: parcimónia, parcimônia (Brazil)
• Sicilian: parsimùnia
• Spanish: parsimonia

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin parsimōnia.

• IPA^(key): /paɾsiˈmonja/ [paɾ.siˈmo.nja]
• Rhymes: -onja
• Syllabification: par‧si‧mo‧nia

parsimonia f (plural parsimonias)

1. calmness, unhurriedness
2. parsimony, frugality

• “parsimonia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024