office: [13] Office comes from a Latin source that originally meant ‘do work’. This was officium, a reduced form of an earlier *opificium, which was compounded from opus ‘work’ (source of English opera, operate, etc) and -ficium, a derivative of facere ‘do’ (source of English fact, faction, etc). That original literal sense has now disappeared from English (which got the word via Old French office), but it has left its mark in ‘position, post, job’ and ‘place where work is done’, both of which existed in Latin.
English has a small cluster of derivatives, including officer [14], official [14], officiate [17], and officious [16]. => fact, factory, fashion, opera, operate
office (n.)
mid-13c., "a post, an employment to which certain duties are attached," from Anglo-French and Old French ofice "place or function; divine service" (12c. in Old French) or directly from Latin officium "service, kindness, favor; official duty, function, business; ceremonial observance," (in Church Latin, "church service"), literally "work-doing," from ops (genitive opis) "power, might, abundance, means" (related to opus "work;" see opus) + stem of facere "do, perform" (see factitious). Meaning "place for conducting business" first recorded 1560s. Office hours attested from 1841.
例文
1. One of the office girls was down with the flu.
女性社員がインフルエンザにかかった。
2.His office was in keeping with his station and experience.
彼のオフィスは身分や経験に合っている。
3.Powell 's unusual journey to high office is an inspiration to millions.
パウエルが高官に昇進した異例の経歴は、数百万人の人を励ますものだ。
4.He called me to his office for a man-to-man talk.
彼は私を彼のオフィスに呼んで内密に話した。
5.The Foreign Office in London has expressed surprise at these allegations.