opifex
See also: Opifex
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From opus (“work”) + -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈo.pi.feks/, [ˈɔpɪfɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.pi.feks/, [ˈɔːpifeks]
Noun edit
opifex m or f (genitive opificis); third declension
- Someone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan.
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | opifex | opificēs |
Genitive | opificis | opificum |
Dative | opificī | opificibus |
Accusative | opificem | opificēs |
Ablative | opifice | opificibus |
Vocative | opifex | opificēs |
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References edit
- “opifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opifex 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)
- opifex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
- God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum