Where does “официоз” come from?
официоз (Russian) comes from German offiziös, from French officieux, from Latin officiōsus, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen.
официоз (Russian): unofficial publication expressing the...
Definitions
- unofficial publication expressing the...
Ancestry of “официоз”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | offiziös | officious |
| 2 | French | officieux | unofficial |
| 3 | Latin | officiōsus | attentive, dutiful, obliging |
| 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... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |