officiosus

Latin

Etymology

From officium (“duty”) +‎ -ōsus (“full of”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /of.fi.kiˈoː.sus/, [ɔfːɪkiˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /of.fi.t͡ʃiˈo.sus/, [ofːit͡ʃiˈɔːs̬us]

Adjective

officiōsus (feminine officiōsa, neuter officiōsum, comparative officiōsior, superlative officiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. attentive, dutiful, obliging
2. officious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	officiōsus	officiōsa	officiōsum		officiōsī	officiōsae	officiōsa
genitive	officiōsī	officiōsae	officiōsī		officiōsōrum	officiōsārum	officiōsōrum
dative	officiōsō	officiōsae	officiōsō		officiōsīs
accusative	officiōsum	officiōsam	officiōsum		officiōsōs	officiōsās	officiōsa
ablative	officiōsō	officiōsā	officiōsō		officiōsīs
vocative	officiōse	officiōsa	officiōsum		officiōsī	officiōsae	officiōsa

Derived terms

• inofficiōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: oficiós
• French: officieux
• Galician: oficioso
• Portuguese: oficioso
• Spanish: oficioso

References

• “officiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “officiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• officiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be courteous, obliging to some one: officiosum esse in aliquem