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‖ officina|ɒfɪˈsaɪnə|
[L., = workshop, laboratory; contr. of opificīna, f. opifex workman; cf. F. officine pharmaceutical laboratory or shop; fig. manufactory (of calumnies, plots, etc.).]
a. Workshop; place of production.
1835J. W. Croker Ess. Fr. Rev. vi. (1857) 332 The Legislative..showed..it was..the real officina of business, the chief mart of popularity, and the widest arena for political struggle.
b. Phr. officina gentium, a country or area from the inhabitants of which several nations develop; also officina gentis, the place of origin of a nation or people.
[c550Jordanes Getica (1882) iv. 25 Scandza..quasi officina gentium aut certe velut vagina nationum.] 1821De Quincey Confess. (1822) 169 Southern Asia is..the great officina gentium. 1832Edin. Rev. LV. 499 The New Englanders have been the officina gentis to the American people. 1877D. M. Wallace Russia (ed. 2) II. xxiv. 106 As Scandinavia was formerly called officina gentium—a workshop in which new nations were made. 1904W. P. Ker Dark Ages iii. 131 [Jordanes] has a lofty conception of the destiny and fortunes of the Gothic race, and his account of the origin of the warlike nations in the Northern island, Scanzia, officina gentium, corresponds in prose to the epic genealogies of the poets. 1961L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Language ix. 195 The officina gentium which was Scandinavia at this period. |