officium
Latin
noun
Definitions
- duty, service
- office
- (figurative) obligation, an obligatory service, visit, or gesture
- (act of) kindness, favor, courtesy
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
✂️ 🏗️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- officiate English
- officious English
- omnivore English
- cōpia Latin
- inofficialis Latin
- officialiter Latin
- officiarius Latin
- officiālis Latin
- officiātus Latin
- omnivorus Latin
- opera Latin
- optimus Latin
- opus Latin
- offiziös German
- capoufficio Italian
- capufficio Italian
- ogni Italian
- ufficiale Italian
- ufficio Italian
- ufficiolo Italian
- ufficioso Italian
- office French
- officiel French
- officier French
- officieusement French
- officieux French
- oficial Spanish, Castilian
- 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
- offiser Norwegian Bokmål
- offisiøs Norwegian Bokmål
- oficial Portuguese
- *abnijaną Proto-Germanic
- *abniją Proto-Germanic
- offiser Norwegian Nynorsk
- offisiøs Norwegian Nynorsk
- office Middle English
- oifig Irish
- office Old French
- officer Old French
- official Old French
- ofici Catalan, Valencian
- oficial Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- oficiu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- oficala Ido
- ofico Ido
- ofis Turkish
- oific Old Irish
- oifig Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- официален Bulgarian
- *opis Proto-Italic
- ufize Ladin