Where does “capofficina” come from?
capofficina (Italian) comes from Italian officina, from Latin officīna, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen, from Latin ob- — to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing.
capofficina (Italian): head of a workshop
Ancestry of “capofficina”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | officina | workshop; laboratory |
| 2 | Latin | officīna | — |
| 3 | Latin | opificium | work |
| 4 | Latin | opifex | Someone who does work ; worker, maker, framer,... |
| 5 | Latin | Ops | earth goddess, fertility deity |
| 6 | Latin | oscen | any bird by whose song cries augurs divined... |
| 7 | Latin | opscen | — |
| 8 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 9 | Latin | obolus | obolus |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |