Unscramble

p 3 a 1 r 1 s 1 i 1 m 3 o 1 n 1 y 4

9 letters · 16 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

noun extreme stinginess

originFrom Middle English parcimonie, from Middle French parsimonie, from Latin parsimōnia (“frugality, sparingness”), from pars-, past participle stem of parcere (“to spare”), + -monia, suffix signifying action, state, or condition.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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