Word Origin Summary

Officer is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• abc-offiser

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• opiser

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• ofisa

  Swahili · derived from

• ਅਫ਼ਸਰ

  Punjabi · derived from

• offiser

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• ABC-offiser

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• opisa

  Tok Pisin · derived from

• upseeri

  Finnish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root