opifex

== Latin == === Etymology === From ops (“resources, wealth”) +‎ -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔ.pɪ.fɛks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.pi.feks] === Noun === opifex m or f (genitive opificis); third declension 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. ==== Derived terms ==== opificium, officium opificīna, officīna ==== Related terms ==== opus ==== 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.