A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Officina,-ae (s.f.I) (contracted form of opificina); “a workshop, manufactory;” “a place where something is made, workshop, manufactory, etc.; to process or the act of manufacturing” (Glare); (pharmacology) laboratory; in medieval Latin, used of a storeroom; a place where goods are sold, a shop; a ‘dealership;’“a herb-store, pharmacy or drug-shop” (Stearn); an apothecary’s shop

[> L. officina,-ae (s.f.I), > opificina, from opifex, q.v.] a workshop, manufactory; both a fabrica,-ae (s.f.I), the workshop or stall of an artisan, and taberna,-ae (s.f.I), a stall, a shop, a booth for selling]; cf. aedes,-is (s.f.III); cf. fabrica,-ae (s.f.I); cf. taberna,-ae (s.f.I); see officinalis,-e (adj.B); see ‘shop;’

NOTE: [the adjective] officinalis,-e (adj.B), q.v.: “sold in shops; applied to plants with real or supposed medicinal properties” (Stearn 1996); "used in medicine. This epithet more often refers to the past than the present; it is derived from opificina, shortened to officina, originally a workshop or shop, later a monastic storeroom, then a herb-store, pharmacy or drug-shop" (Stearn).

Fabrica,-ae (s.f.I): the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials (syn.: taberna, officina) (Lewis & Short); a shop (as of garments) whose merchandise is made for sale (after Lewis & Short).

NOTE: the genitive plural of the noun, officinarum, ‘of the (work)shops,’ is often used as a species epithet for plants used in manufacturing, often of foods and particularly medicinal products; see officinalis,-e (adj.B).

Alpinia officinarum; Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane, used in the manufacture of sugar.

Officina,-ae (s.f.I): “a place where something is made, workshop; manufactory, etc.; the process or act of manufacturing” (Glare).

Officina,-ae (s.f.I), but in Middle Latin, also officinum,-i (s.n.II) and officinus,-i (s.m.II): a place in which work is done, workshop, workroom.

1. GENERAL:

- Agaricum gelatinosum, cespitosum, infundibulum dimidiatum referens, sordide aureum, Меnse Оctobri, in Falteronae jugis, in loco Саmpigna,juxta officinam, ubi fabri serrarii Аbietum caudices in tabulas scindunt (Mich.), the gelatinous Agaric, clumped, resembling a halved funnel, dirty golden color, in the Month of October, on the ridges of [mount] Falterona, in the Campigna region, beside the (work)shop, where the sawyers split the trunks of Abies [i.e. Fir] into planks [i.e. boards].

NOTE: the noun ‘officina,-ae (s.f.I),’ q.v., ‘workshop,’ + the adjective of material, etc., specifying the trade; for adjectives see faber, gen.sg. fabri, ‘craftsman, artificer; dealer;’

- officina doliaria, cooperage, ‘cask-, or barrel-shop;’ a manufactory or dealership in casks and barrels.

- officina fabrorum, a smithy, but also the workshop of craftsmen or artisans generally.

- officina lignaria, carpenter’s workshop.

- officina sellaria, chair-maker’s workshop.

- officina tignaria, carpenter’s workshop.

- officina vitraria, glass-maker’s workshop.

2. (Pharm.) officina,-ae (s.f.I), an apothecary’s shop; with reference to an apothecaries’ craft or profession; a workshop, a laboratory (Bennitt).

NOTE: gen.pl. officinarum, “of shops, generally those of apothecaries” (Stearn 1996).

- Вrаss. Ехаm. Simpl. Antonii Мusae Brasavoli Ferrariensis examen omnium simplicium medicamentorum, quibus in officinis utuntur. Lugduni 1537 in 8. (Mich.), [the] examination of Antonius Musa Brassavolus of Ferrara, of of all the simples of medicines, which are used among apothecaries. Lyon, 1537.

NOTE: Antonio Musa Brassavola (variously spelled Brasavoli, Brasavola, or Brasavoli; 16 January 1500 – 1555) was a famous Italian physician.

NOTE: gen.pl. officinarum, “of shops, generally those of apothecaries” (Stearn 1996);

MICHELLI:

- Hepatica vulgaris, major, vel officinarum Italiae, the Hepatica, common, larger, or of the apothecary-shops of Italy.

- Cynomorion purpureum, officinarum, the purple Cynomorion of the apthecaryshops.

Anacyclus officinarum; Caterach officinarum; Cinnamomum officinarum, Hypericum officinarum; Ladanium officinarum; Matricaria officinarum; Pilosella officinarum; Saponaria officinarum; Scolopendrium officinarum. Cucumis officinarum-melo, the ‘melo’ of the shops (Cucumis melo L. Cantaloupe, Musk- or Honeydew Melon).

3. (Eccl. and monastic, an unspecified building (household or department); pl., offices; distinct from aedes, domus etc.; function, working.

4. (Bookshop bookstore; printer; printing press);

NOTE: (of bookshops) the term may apply to both the manufacture of books as well as their sale; see ‘apud’ (7); “shop, printing establishment” (Maxwell 1998).

- officina typographica (adj.A), a typographic workshop (printshop).

- Lindberg, S. O. 1875. HEPATICAE in Hibernia mense Julii 1873 lectae. a S. O. LINDBERG. HELSINGFORSlAE, Ex officina typographica societatis litterariae fennicae [= Hepaticae collected in Ireland in the month of July 1873 by S.O. Lindberg. At Helsinki [= locative case] from the typographic workshop [i.e. printshop] of the Literary Society of Finland].

- “vaenales prostant ex officina Henr. Knox, [offered] for sale at the office of Henry Knox” (Maxwell).

- Officina,-ae (s.f.I) bibliopolae [=gen.sg], a bookseller’s shop; the printing press of a bookseller; see bibliopola,-ae (s.f.I).

- ex officina Gulielmi Young, bibliopolae, no. 52 Secund-Platea, angulo Castaneae-Plateae = “from the shop of William Young, bookseller, 52 Second Street, on the corner of Castanea Street” (Maxwell 1998).

- expletum est hoc opusculum & ex officina emissum in Parisiorum academia = this little work was completed and published from the printshop in the Parisian academy (Maxwell 1998).

- Excudebatur Salmanticae in officina Andreae à Portonarijs = [This book] was printed in the shop of Andreas à Portonariis at Salmantica (Maxwell 1998).

- ex officina Platiniana, “from the Plantine Establishment” (Maxwell 1998); from the Platinian shop.

- Ex officina Platiniana, apud viduam & filios Ioannis Moret = from the Plantine Establishment, in the shop of the widow and sons of Joannes Moretus (Maxwell 1998).

- Melbourne: AUCTORITATE GUBERN. COLONIAE VICTORIAE. EX OFFICINA JOHANNIS FERRES. 185S-1859. (F. Muell.), At Melbourne. By the authority of the Governor of the Colony of Victoria. From the (print)shop of John Ferres.

- ‘St Francis of Assisi:’ in “Laurentius a Brundusio, Opera omnia, vol. 9, Sanctorale” (Padua: Officina typographica seminarii, 1944); ‘St. Francis of Assisi,’ [in] “Lawrence of Brundisi, the complete works, vol. 9, of the Sanctorale” (Padua. The typographical workshop of the seminary).

[NOTE: the Sanctorale. St. Lawrence of Brindisi; in the complete works. 15 volumes.]

- De Natura stirpium libri tres, Ioanne Ruellio authore. Cum privilegio Regis. Parisiis. Ex officina Simonis Colinaei. 1536; three books on the nature of plants, by the author Ioannis Ruellius. With the special prerogative][i.e. special right] of the King. Paris. From the shop of Simon Colinaeus [= Simoneum Colinarium = Simon de Colines, a printer of Paris, active between 1520 and 1546].