officiosus

== Latin == === Etymology === From officium (“duty”) + -ōsus (“full of”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔf.fɪ.kiˈoː.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [of.fi.t͡ʃiˈɔː.s̬us] === Adjective === officiōsus (feminine officiōsa, neuter officiōsum, comparative officiōsior, superlative officiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective attentive, dutiful, obliging officious ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== inofficiōsus ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: oficiós French: officieux Galician: oficioso Italian: ufficioso Portuguese: oficioso Romanian: oficios 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.