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
- officially
Ancestry of “uffiċjalment”, step by step
uffiċjalment traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian ufficialmente
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | ufficialmente | officially, formally |
| 2 | Italian | ufficiale | official; officer |
| 3 | Latin | officiālis | official |
| 4 | Latin | officium | duty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory... |
| 5 | Latin | opificium | work |
| 6 | Latin | opifex | Someone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan |
| 7 | Latin | Ops | earth goddess, fertility deity |
| 8 | Latin | oscen | any bird by whose song cries augurs divined... |
| 9 | Latin | opscen | — |
| 10 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 11 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
via Sicilian ufficialmenti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sicilian | ufficialmenti | — |