officious
English
adj
Definitions
- (obsolete) Obliging, attentive, eager to please.
- Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- (work, effect, product, toil, ability, force, result of work).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃ep-
Gloss
work, effect, product, toil, ability, force, result of work
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
働
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- inofficious English
- inofficiously English
- inofficiousness English
- officiously English
- officiousness English
- omnivore English
- overofficious English
- unofficious English
- unofficiously English
- unofficiousness English
- cōpia Latin
- inofficiōsus Latin
- officium Latin
- omnivorus Latin
- opera Latin
- optimus Latin
- opus Latin
- ogni Italian
- ὄμπνη Ancient Greek
- *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁op- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃ep- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃ep-(i)- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃épos, *h₃ép-os Proto-Indo-European
- *abnijaną Proto-Germanic
- *abniją Proto-Germanic
- *opis Proto-Italic