office – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of office

Noun: office
Sg.office
Pl.offices

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 244 ff.
  • Þis holi Man was i-torned...
  • To a gret office of þe world. ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
  • c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 223 ff.
  • He cam to court and was in guod offiz
  • With þe erchebischop of Kaunterburi. ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
  • Þe porter of þe abbay... dede his ofice in þe clos. [c. 1330, Lai le Freine:]
  • Sche say me... withouten office of tunge and al dowmb. [c. 1380, Boethius, translated by Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece:]
  • As it is in Phisique write
  • Of livere, of lunge, of galle, of splen, (Entendeth to don him service.
  • (please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book VII, ll. 467 ff.]
  • Membres of generacioun... maked been for bothe;
  • That is to seye, for office and for ese ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe" in Tales of Caunterbury, ll. 127 ff.]
  • Þe mouþ heþ tuo offices, huer-of þe on belongeþ to þe zuelȝ...
  • Þe oþer zuo is in speche. [1340, Ayenbite:]
  • Þe holy bischop...
  • For him dede þe office;
  • In erþe he was sikerliche ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [a. 1300, Arthour & Merlin, ll. 2758 ff.]
  • He song þulke masse ilome, for al-so heo bi-ginnez ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 942 ff.]
  • a. 1422, petition, P.R.O. 117, 5842 ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
  • 1435, petition, P.R.O. 130, 6460A ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
  • 1432, petition, P.R.O. 26, 1259 ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
  • He pleide so sweetly þat... alle þe helly offices lefte there besinesses. [c. 1440, Christine de Pisan, translated by Stephen Scrope, The Epistle of Othea, page 85:]
  • ...I wol han .xij. pens, though that she be wood,
  • Or I wol sompne hir vn to our office... [c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in Tales of Caunterbury:]
  • Offyce, or place of offyce, officina. [1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, page 363:]
  • While Beues was in þat office,
  • Þe kinges sone... ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 1300, The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun, ll. 3555 ff.]
  • foꝛ þe mynyſterie of þis office. not oneli filliþ þoo þingis þat failen to hooli men .· but alſo multeplieþ many þankyngis to god (As the administering of this favour doesn't just supply the things that holy men are lacking, but also overflows in many thanks to God.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·ii· 9:12, folio 70, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]

Nouns inflected like office

schimeringe, synger, serche, sengle, snoute, saucer, sauter, sapour, saphir, sachel, sculle, scrape, scrowe, scisme, sclate, schyfe, schyve, schole, schere, schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old French office, from Latin officium, contracted form of opificium. See: Latin Nouns 'officium'.

Verbs referencing "office"

English Nouns office.

Translations