agency; department; office (state institution responsible for specified concerns) · office; post (public function, e.g. of a civil servant) · mass; office
köken: From Middle High German ambahte, ambehte, ambet, ammet, ampt, ambt, amt, from Old High German ambahti, ambaht, from Proto-West Germanic *ambaht, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz, from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos. The Middle High German contracted form amb(e)t developed quite regularly, via also attested ammet or ambt, into modern German Amt. Cognate with Dutch ambacht and ambt,…
köken: Inherited from Old French burel, diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”).
aile: bureau de change, bureau de poste, bureau de tabac, bureau de vote, chaise de bureau, employé de bureau, lampe de bureau, ordinateur de bureau, passer sous le bureau
köken: From earlier officio, borrowed from Latin officium (“duty, office”), derived from ops (“wealth, resources”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ep- (“to work”). Doublet of opificio and officina.
office (building or room) · ministry; secretariat; bureau · writing desk
çekim: çoğul escritórios
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin scrīptor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium ▲ Latin scrībō ▲ Latin -tor ▲ Latin -ius Latin -tōrius Latin -tōrium Latin scrīptōriumlbor.…
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office, agency (building of work for an institution) · office, agency (room in such a building) · office, agency (people working in such a building or room)
çekim: çoğul biura · tamlayan biura
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureaubor. Polish biuro…
aile: biuro podróży, biuro polityczne, biuro rzeczy znalezionych, biurko, biurowiec, biurwa
köken: Borrowed from Swedish kontor. Further etymology The Swedish term from Middle Low German kontôr, komtôr, komptor (“commercial branch; writing room; counting desk/table”), from Middle Dutch contoor, contoir, comptoir, from Middle French contoir, comtoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (“instrument suffix”), from Latin computāre and -tōrium.