opifex

See also: Opifex

Latin

Etymology

From opus (“work”) +‎ -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.

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

Derived terms

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
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