Where does “ardoifig” come from?
ardoifig (Irish) comes from Irish oifig, from Old Irish oific, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen.
ardoifig (Irish): headquarters, head office
Definitions
- headquarters, head office
Ancestry of “ardoifig”, step by step
ardoifig traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Irish oifig
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | oifig | office; bureau |
| 2 | Old Irish | oific | office |
| 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 | — |