officina

From Latin officīna.

officina f (plural officine)

1. workshop
2. (pharmacology) laboratory

• officinale (“medicinal”)

• opificīna

From opificium (“action of working”), from opifex (“laborer, worker”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /of.fiˈkiː.na/, [ɔf.fɪˈkiː.na]

officīna f (genitive officīnae); first declension

1. workshop, manufactory
2. a poultry house, henhouse
3. (New Latin, especially botany) an apothecary's, a pharmacy

An officīna is a shop where goods are manufactured. A taberna can be a shop where goods are sold. It is possible for a single shop to be both a taberna and an officīna. In scientific names, it and its derivatives (officinarum, officinalis, &c.) usually indicates use in producing medicines.

First declension.

• officīnālis
• officīnātor
• officīnātrix

• opifex
• opificium

• officina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• officina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• officina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• officina in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• officina in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

officina f (plural officinas)

1. Obsolete spelling of oficina