officina
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There ought to be only one officina for the issuing of currency; there ought to be only one officina for the control of that issue."
- "[…] there may have been variations in method of describing an officina used to distinguish different series issued therefrom."
- "One officina resumed work in April and another in June, and a third is expected to restart shortly. The £8.831. written off in last year’s accounts for dishonoured bills has been recovered."
- "Judging by the style, only one die cutter was employed in the manufacture of all the obverse dies in the two officinas, but different die cutters produced the reverse dies nos. 26 to 41 and the contemporary nos. 55 to 60."
- "There is evidence that the number of officinae rose to four and perhaps five before the end of the reign, but the great majority of the coins were issued by the first and second officinae."
- "The coins offer no evidence of the existence of more than one officina during this period."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: officīna