opifex

See also: Opifex

Latin

Etymology

From opus (“work”) +‎ -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pi.feks/, [ˈɔpɪfɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pi.feks/, [ˈɔːpifeks]

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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	opifex	opificēs
Genitive	opificis	opificum
Dative	opificī	opificibus
Accusative	opificem	opificēs
Ablative	opifice	opificibus
Vocative	opifex	opificēs

Derived terms

• opificium, officium
• opificīna, officīna

Related terms

• opus

Descendants

• Italian: opifice
• English: opificer

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’s 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum