Where does “Offizier” come from?
Offizier (German) comes from Old French officer, from Medieval Latin officiarius, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen.
Offizier (German): officer, commissioned officer; any chess piece...
Definitions
- officer, commissioned officer; any chess piece...
Ancestry of “Offizier”, step by step
Offizier traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French officer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | officer | officer |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | officiarius | officer |
| 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 | — |
via Middle French officier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | officier | — |