Where does “oficial” come from?
oficial (Catalan) comes from Latin officiālis, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen, from Latin ob- — to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing.
oficial (Catalan): official; official, officer
Definitions
- official; official, officer
Ancestry of “oficial”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | officiālis | — |
| 2 | Latin | officium | duty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory... |
| 3 | Latin | opificium | work |
| 4 | Latin | opifex | Someone who does work ; worker, maker, framer,... |
| 5 | Latin | Ops | earth goddess, fertility deity |
| 6 | Latin | oscen | any bird by whose song cries augurs divined... |
| 7 | Latin | opscen | — |
| 8 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 9 | Latin | obolus | obolus |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |
Words derived from “oficial”