opifex

See also: Opifex

Latin

Etymology

    From ops (“resources, wealth”) +‎ -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    opifex m or f (genitive opificis); third declension

    1. Someone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan.
      Synonyms: artifex, faber

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative opifex opificēs
    genitive opificis opificum
    dative opificī opificibus
    accusative opificem opificēs
    ablative opifice opificibus
    vocative opifex opificēs

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → English: opificer
    • → Italian: opifice

    References

    • “opifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “opifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "opifex", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “opifex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
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