Where does “uffiċjalment” come from?

uffiċjalment (Maltese) comes from Italian ufficialmente, from Italian ufficiale, from Latin officiālis, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen — missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly...

uffiċjalment (Maltese): officially

Definitions

  1. officially

Ancestry of “uffiċjalment”, step by step

uffiċjalment traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian ufficialmente

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianufficialmenteofficially, formally
2Italianufficialeofficial; officer
3Latinofficiālisofficial
4Latinofficiumduty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory...
5Latinopificiumwork
6LatinopifexSomeone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan
7LatinOpsearth goddess, fertility deity
8Latinoscenany bird by whose song cries augurs divined...
9Latinopscen
10Latinob-towards; against
11Latinobolusobolus (Greek coin)
12Ancient Greekὀβολόςobol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...
13Ancient Greekὀβελόςa spit, rod; a horizontal line
14Ancient Greekβέλοςmissile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly...

via Sicilian ufficialmenti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sicilianufficialmenti
Every word from Ancient Greek βέλοςEvery word from Latin ob-Every word from Latin opscen