English
ex officio
Ex officio comes from Latin ex officio ‘by right of office’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEex officio‘by right of office’literally ‘from the office’
- Englishearliest quotation 1830same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEex officio‘by right of office’literally ‘from the office’
- Englishearliest quotation 1830same form
Earliest quotation: 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Concerning the Right Idea of the Constitution: “That friend, […] added, with a smile, that he…”
Every English word from Latin ex officio
Today it means
adv By virtue of the office that originated it, or of the title held.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ex officio / ex officio