Where does “mag-opisina” come from?
mag-opisina (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog opisina, from Spanish oficina, from Latin officīna, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen — to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing.
mag-opisina (Tagalog): to go to the office; to work in the office
Definitions
- to go to the office; to work in the office
Ancestry of “mag-opisina”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | opisina | office |
| 2 | Spanish | oficina | office; workshop; laboratory |
| 3 | Latin | officīna | workshop, manufactory |
| 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 | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |