Where does “officiousness” come from?
officiousness (English) comes from English officious, from Latin officiosus, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen.
officiousness (English): The quality of being officious
Definitions
- The quality of being officious
Ancestry of “officiousness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | officious | Obliging, attentive, eager to please; Offensively... |
| 2 | Latin | officiosus | attentive, dutiful, obliging; officious |
| 3 | Latin | officium | duty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory... |
| 4 | Latin | opificium | work |
| 5 | Latin | opifex | Someone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan |
| 6 | Latin | Ops | earth goddess, fertility deity |
| 7 | Latin | oscen | any bird by whose song cries augurs divined... |
| 8 | Latin | opscen | — |
| 9 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 10 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |