officinal

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (dated) Medicinal.
  2. (obsolete, rare) Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
  3. (obsolete) Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˌɒfɪˈsaɪnəl/
Etimologie (Engels)

From French, from Latin officīna (“a workshop”), contracted from opificīna, from opifex (“a workman”); opus (“work”) + faciō (“to make or do”).

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