opificium

Latin

Etymology

opifex +‎ -ium

Noun

opificium n (genitive opificiī or opificī); second declension

1. work

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	opificium	opificia
genitive	opificiī opificī1	opificiōrum
dative	opificiō	opificiīs
accusative	opificium	opificia
ablative	opificiō	opificiīs
vocative	opificium	opificia

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

Derived terms

• officium
• opificīna, officīna

Related terms

• opifex

Descendants

• Italian: opificio

References

• “opificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opificium 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)
• opificium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.