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

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 ; worker, maker, framer,...
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
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	—

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