officina Latin · revision 9584

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₃ep-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɔf.fɪˈkiː.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [of.fiˈt͡ʃiː.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''officīna''' ''f'' (genitive officīnae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus still has the full form ''opificīna''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is contracted from ⟨opificīna⟩, from [[opifex]] “craftsman” with the suffix [[-īna]], with loss of the vowel and /pf/ becoming /ff/, as in [[officium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) ⟨Opifex⟩ is from [[opus]] “work” and [[faciō]] “to make”; de Vaan traces ⟨opus⟩ to [[ine-pro|*h₃ep-os|t=work]].^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short cite the full form from Plautus' ''Miles''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a place where things are made, a workshop, factory, as in Cicero and Caesar.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it was a workshop.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it was a monastery's service building.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it for a workshop and a smithy.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''fucina'' and, through Old French ''oechine'', French ''usine''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has ''opificīna''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|workshop]], factory.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A monastery's service building; a [[m|en|smithy]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[officīnātor]]

+ * [[officīnātrix]]

+ * [[officīnālis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[opifex]]

+ * [[opificium]]

+ * [[officium]]

+ * [[opus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}