What does the word economy mean in original Greek ?
It is a combination of the word ‘house’ (oecus/οικος) and ‘law’ (nomos/νομος). But it’s also interesting to know this; the word ‘nomos’ means law in Greek but the word is very very old and at first it meant “land-dividing”. A “nomos” in ages very long ago classical Athens or even Trojan war, was that line carved on the ground to seperate fields of lands. It still is, but since a “nomos” defined what was to be allowed and what wasn’t it also got the meaning of what we know today as law. It means “the rules of the house”.
