Where does “uffiċjali” come from?
uffiċjali (Maltese) comes from Italian ufficiale, from Latin officiālis, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen.
uffiċjali (Maltese): official
Definitions
- official
Ancestry of “uffiċjali”, step by step
uffiċjali traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian ufficiale
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | ufficiale | official; officer |
| 2 | Latin | officiālis | official |
| 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 Sicilian ufficiali
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sicilian | ufficiali | — |