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Where does “officiarius” come from?

officiarius (Latin) comes from French officier, from German Offizier, from Old French officer, from Medieval Latin officiarius, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops — to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing.

Ancestry of “officiarius”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchofficierto officiate; officer
2GermanOffizierofficer, commissioned officer; any chess piece...
3Old Frenchofficerofficer
4Medieval Latinofficiariusofficer
5Latinofficiumduty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory...
6Latinopificiumwork
7LatinopifexSomeone who does work ; worker, maker, framer,...
8LatinOpsearth goddess, fertility deity
9Latinoscenany bird by whose song cries augurs divined...
10Latinopscen—
11Latinob-towards; against
12Latinobolusobolus
13Ancient Greekὀβολόςobol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...
14Ancient Greekὀβελόςa spit, rod; a horizontal line
15Ancient Greekβέλοςmissile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly...
16Proto-Indo-EuropeangʷélHos—
17Proto-Indo-EuropeangʷelH-to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing
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