officiarius

Latin

Etymology

From officium (“office, duty”) +‎ -ārius (agent noun suffix).

Noun

officiārius m (genitive officiāriī or officiārī); second declension

1. officer

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	officiārius	officiāriī
Genitive	officiāriī officiārī1	officiāriōrum
Dative	officiāriō	officiāriīs
Accusative	officiārium	officiāriōs
Ablative	officiāriō	officiāriīs
Vocative	officiārie	officiāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Old French: officier
  • → Middle Dutch: officier
    • Dutch: officier
      • Afrikaans: offisier
  • French: officier
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: offiser

References

• officiarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)