Where does “poŝtoficejo” come from?
poŝtoficejo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto oficejo, from Esperanto ofico, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen.
poŝtoficejo (Esperanto): post office
Definitions
- post office
Ancestry of “poŝtoficejo”, step by step
poŝtoficejo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto oficejo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | oficejo | office, place of work |
| 2 | Esperanto | ofico | office, function, job |
| 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 | — |