oficial
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin officiālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
oficial m or f (masculine and feminine plural oficials)
Derived terms
- cooficial
- extraoficial
- oficialia
- oficialista
- oficialitat
- oficialitzar
- oficialment
Noun
oficial m (plural oficials, feminine oficiala, feminine plural oficiales)
Related terms
Further reading
- “oficial”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “oficial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “oficial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “oficial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Occitan
Pronunciation
Audio (Languedoc): (file)
Adjective
oficial m (feminine singular oficiala, masculine plural oficials, feminine plural oficialas)
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- official (pre-standardization spelling)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin officiālis.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /o.fi.siˈaw/ [o.fi.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /o.fiˈsjaw/ [o.fiˈsjaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔ.fiˈsjal/ [ɔ.fiˈsjaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔ.fiˈsja.li/
- Rhymes: -al, -aw
- Hyphenation: o‧fi‧ci‧al
Adjective
oficial m or f (plural oficiais)
Derived terms
Noun
oficial m or f by sense (plural oficiais, feminine oficial or oficiala, feminine plural oficiais or oficialas)
Further reading
- “oficial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French officiel, from Late Latin officiālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [o.fi.tʃiˈal]
Adjective
oficial m or n (feminine singular oficială, masculine plural oficiali, feminine and neuter plural oficiale)
Declension
singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | oficial | oficială | oficiali | oficiale | |||
definite | oficialul | oficiala | oficialii | oficialele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | oficial | oficiale | oficiali | oficiale | |||
definite | oficialului | oficialei | oficialilor | oficialelor |
Derived terms
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin officiālis. Cognate with English official.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ofiˈθjal/ [o.fiˈθjal] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /ofiˈsjal/ [o.fiˈsjal] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: o‧fi‧cial
Adjective
oficial m or f (masculine and feminine plural oficiales)
Derived terms
Noun
oficial m or f by sense (plural oficiales)
- officer, official
- clerk, functionary
- Synonym: funcionario
- office worker, skilled worker
- Synonym: oficinista
- journeyman
- artisan
- Synonym: artesano
- butcher
- Synonym: carnicero
- executioner
- Synonym: verdugo
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “oficial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024