officina
Meaning
- (declension-1) workshop, manufactory
- (declension-1) a poultry house, henhouse
- (New-Latin, declension-1, especially) an apothecary's, a pharmacy
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Pronounced as (IPA)
[ɔf.fɪˈkiː.na]
Etymology
From opifex (“laborer, worker”) + -īna, with vowel syncope followed by assimilation of /pf/ to /ff/. Compare opificium, officium (“action of working”).
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