parsimoniaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From parcō (“to spare, save up”) +‎ -mōnia. Per De Vaan, built on the verb's perfect stem pars- (as in parsī).

発音

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

名詞

parsimōnia f (genitive parsimōniae); first declension

1. frugality, thrift, parsimony
   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum 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.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “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, 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.