officier

Dutch

Officier van de Belgische Zeemacht met drie officierskruisen
Officer of the Belgian Navy with three officer's crosses

Etymology

From Middle Dutch officier (“official”), from Old French officier, from Latin officiārius.

The sense “overseer” was borrowed from English overseer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.fiˈsir/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: of‧fi‧cier

Noun

officier m (plural officieren or officiers, diminutive officiertje n)

1. officer
2. (Surinam, historical) plantation overseer
3. (obsolete) official

Derived terms

• hoofdofficier
• officier van justitie
• onderofficier

Descendants

• Afrikaans: offisier
• → Indonesian: opsir

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.fi.sje/

• audio (un officier):

  (file)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin officiare.

Verb

officier

1. to officiate

Conjugation

Conjugation of officier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	officier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	officiant /ɔ.fi.sjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		officié /ɔ.fi.sje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	officie /ɔ.fi.si/	officies /ɔ.fi.si/	officie /ɔ.fi.si/	officions /ɔ.fi.sjɔ̃/	officiez /ɔ.fi.sje/	officient /ɔ.fi.si/
	imperfect	officiais /ɔ.fi.sjɛ/	officiais /ɔ.fi.sjɛ/	officiait /ɔ.fi.sjɛ/	officiions /ɔ.fi.si.jɔ̃/	officiiez /ɔ.fi.si.je/	officiaient /ɔ.fi.sjɛ/
	past historic2	officiai /ɔ.fi.sje/	officias /ɔ.fi.sja/	officia /ɔ.fi.sja/	officiâmes /ɔ.fi.sjam/	officiâtes /ɔ.fi.sjat/	officièrent /ɔ.fi.sjɛʁ/
	future	officierai /ɔ.fi.si.ʁe/	officieras /ɔ.fi.si.ʁa/	officiera /ɔ.fi.si.ʁa/	officierons /ɔ.fi.si.ʁɔ̃/	officierez /ɔ.fi.si.ʁe/	officieront /ɔ.fi.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	officierais /ɔ.fi.si.ʁɛ/	officierais /ɔ.fi.si.ʁɛ/	officierait /ɔ.fi.si.ʁɛ/	officierions /ɔ.fi.si.ʁjɔ̃/	officieriez /ɔ.fi.si.ʁje/	officieraient /ɔ.fi.si.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	officie /ɔ.fi.si/	officies /ɔ.fi.si/	officie /ɔ.fi.si/	officiions /ɔ.fi.si.jɔ̃/	officiiez /ɔ.fi.si.je/	officient /ɔ.fi.si/
	imperfect2	officiasse /ɔ.fi.sjas/	officiasses /ɔ.fi.sjas/	officiât /ɔ.fi.sja/	officiassions /ɔ.fi.sja.sjɔ̃/	officiassiez /ɔ.fi.sja.sje/	officiassent /ɔ.fi.sjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	officie /ɔ.fi.si/	—	officions /ɔ.fi.sjɔ̃/	officiez /ɔ.fi.sje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin officiarius.

Noun

officier m (plural officiers, feminine officière)

1. officer

Derived terms

• sous-officier

Further reading

• “officier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Noun

officier

1. Alternative form of officer

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Old French

Alternative forms

• officer (more common)

Noun

officier oblique singular, m (oblique plural officiers, nominative singular officiers, nominative plural officier)

1. officer

Descendants

• → Middle English: officer, offecer, officeer, officeere, officere, officiare, officier, offiser, offycer, offycere, offyseer, oficer
  • English: officer
  • Scots: offisher
• French: officier
• Norman: officyi

References

• officier on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub