different between official vs imprimatur

English

Etymology

From Middle English official, from Old French official, from Latin offici?lis, from Latin officium (“duty, service”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f???l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Adjective

official (comparative more official, superlative most official)

1. Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.

   official duties

2. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority

   an official statement or report

3. Approved by authority; authorized.

   The Official Strategy Guide

   1. (Of a statement) Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.

      Despite these testimonies, "accidental asphyxiation" remains his official cause of death.

4. (pharmaceutical) Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.

   an official drug or preparation

5. Discharging an office or function.
6. Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
7. Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
8. (slang) True, real, beyond doubt.

   Well, it's official: you lost your mind!

9. (pharmacology) Listen in a national pharmacopeia.

Antonyms

• unofficial

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

official (plural officials)

1. An office holder invested with powers and authorities.
2. A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:official

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• official in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• official in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• officiale, offycyal, offyciall, officiall, offecialle

Etymology

From Old French official, from Latin offici?lis; equivalent to office +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fisi?a?l/, /??fisial/

Noun

official (plural officials)

1. An underling of a member of the clergy, often heading a clerical court.
2. A hireling or subordinate; one employed to serve, especially at an estate.

Descendants

• English: official
• Scots: offeecial

References

• “offici?l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.

Adjective

official (plural and weak singular officiale)

1. (of body parts) Functional; serving a purpose.
2. (rare) Requisite or mandatory for a task.

Descendants

• English: official
• Scots: offeecial

References

• “offici?l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.

Old French

Alternative forms

• officiel

Noun

official m (oblique plural officiaus or officiax or officials, nominative singular officiaus or officiax or officials, nominative plural official)

1. court official
2. chamber pot

Adjective

official m (oblique and nominative feminine singular officiale)

1. official; certified or permitted by an authoritative source

Descendants

• ? Middle English: official, officiale, offycyal, offyciall, officiall, offecialle
  • English: official
  • Scots: offeecial
• French: officiel

Portuguese

Adjective

official (plural officiaes, comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of oficial

Noun

official m, f (plural officiaes)

1. Obsolete spelling of oficial

English

Etymology

From Latin imprim?tur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??m.p???me?.t?/, /??m.p???m??.t?/, /??m.p???m??.t??/, /??m.p???me?.t??/, /?m?p??m?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??m.p???m?.t?/, /??m.p???me?.t?/, /?mpr??m?t??/, /?m?pr?m?t?/, /?m?pr?m?t??/
• ,

Noun

imprimatur (plural imprimaturs or imprimantur)

1. (printing) An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
   • 1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page:

     The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson
2. (by extension) Any mark of official approval.

   Synonyms: approval, authorization, endorsement

   • 1988, New York Times, Gay fiction comes home, [1]:

     Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.

Translations

References

Czech

Noun

imprimatur n

1. imprimatur

French

Etymology

From Latin imprim?tur (“let it be printed”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p?i.ma.ty?/

Noun

imprimatur m (plural imprimaturs)

1. imprimatur

   Donner son imprimatur.

Further reading

• “imprimatur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin imprim?tur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imprimatur/
• Hyphenation: im?pri?ma?tur

Noun

imprimatur

1. (Catholicism) imprimatur, an official license to publish or print something.

Further reading

• “imprimatur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im.pri?ma?.tur/, [?mp???mä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.pri?ma.tur/, [imp?i?m??t?ur]

Verb

imprim?tur

1. third-person singular present passive subjunctive of imprim?