office的词源
英文词源
- office
- office: [13] Office comes from a Latin source that originally meant ‘do work’. This was officium, a reduced form of an earlier *opificium, which was compounded from opus ‘work’ (source of English opera, operate, etc) and -ficium, a derivative of facere ‘do’ (source of English fact, faction, etc). That original literal sense has now disappeared from English (which got the word via Old French office), but it has left its mark in ‘position, post, job’ and ‘place where work is done’, both of which existed in Latin.
English has a small cluster of derivatives, including officer [14], official [14], officiate [17], and officious [16].
=> fact, factory, fashion, opera, operate - office (n.)
- mid-13c., "a post, an employment to which certain duties are attached," from Anglo-French and Old French ofice "place or function; pine service" (12c. in Old French) or directly from Latin officium "service, kindness, favor; official duty, function, business; ceremonial observance," (in Church Latin, "church service"), literally "work-doing," from ops (genitive opis) "power, might, abundance, means" (related to opus "work;" see opus) + stem of facere "do, perform" (see factitious). Meaning "place for conducting business" first recorded 1560s. Office hours attested from 1841.
中文词源
office（办公室）：教会提供的宗教服务或仪式
英语单词office来自拉丁语officium，由opus（工作）和facere（做）组成，字面意思就是“做事、完成工作）。最初它主要应用于宗教领域，表示教会提供的各种宗教服务或仪式，如礼拜、洗礼等。后来，该词的宗教色彩减弱，可用于世俗场合，表示“岗位”、“工作”。16世纪60年代时，该词才首次用来表示“工作的场所”，即“办公室”。
office：['ɔfɪs] n.办公室，营业处，政府机关
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：office 词源，office 含义。
来自拉丁语officium,办公室，工作地，职责，责任，来自opificium拼写变体，来自opi,工作，操作，词源同opus,operate,-fic,做，词源同do,fact.即办公的地方。
