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“office” in Latin

The English word office itself goes back to Latin faciō, through officium.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

office
Business, function; particular employment, especially public, munus (general term); munia, -um, neuter (acts of duty, obligations): officium (like the preceding, that which one has to do): partes (the share or part of a duty or obligation imposed on anyone, one’s own sphere of action): provincia (that which is conferred on anyone, especially a public office): sors (that which has fallen to anyone by lot): locus (a definite position): magistratus (the office of a magistrate; opposed to imperium, command in war): honos (an office of honor). An honorable office, munus magnificum, dignitas, honos: a public office, officium publicum: a civic office, officium civile: an important office, munus amplum or grave (opposed to munus exiguum, vile, servile, sordidum): to seek an office, petere honores, ambire magistratum; (earnestly) inservire or operam dare honoribus: to obtain an office, munus alicui defertur, mandatur, muneri praeficior: to enter upon an office, munus or magistratum inire, munus suscipere, provinciam capere or accipere: to bear, hold, or administer an office, munus obire, sustinere, munere fungi, magistratum gerere, potestatem gerere or potestati praeesse (of a consul or praetor): to perform one’s office well, implere officii sui partes, colere et facere officium suum, laute administrare munus suum: to have filled all offices in the state, omnibus honoribus et reipublicae muneribus perfunctum esse: to undertake or discharge the office of anyone, suscipere officia et partes alicujus: to discharge one’s office badly, male administrare munus suum: to confer an office on anyone, munus alicui deferre, mandare, assignare: to hold office, munus habere, sustinere: to hold no office, vacare munere, vacare a publico munere et officio, or ab omni reipublicae administratione: to refuse or decline an office, munus deprecari or recusare; munus defugere (to shun): to succeed to anybody’s office, partes alicujus sibi sumere, munus alicujus occupare: this is my office, hoc meum est: this is not your office, hae non sunt tuae partes, hoc a te non exigitur: in virtue of my office, pro auctoritate: robe of office, vestis forensis: seal of office, praefecturae signum: when he was in office, dum functus est munere: air of office, potestatis persona (of a governor, Tac., Agr., 9, 3); gravitas censoria, supercilium censorium (severity, sternness; Cic., Cat., 15, 35; Valerius Max., 2, 9, praef.): to put on an air of office, vultum componere (Plin., Ep., 2, 20, 3): out of office, (a) generally, that holds no office, privatus, qui ab omni reipublicae administratione vacat; (b) retired or removed from office, a munere remotus; cui munus abrogatum est.
Place of business, sedes praefecturae (where business is transacted); domus, quae ad habitandum semper datur ei qui quaesitoris obtinet munus (official residence).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for office?
The usual Latin words for “office” are mūnus, mūnia, officium; also pars, prōvincia, sors. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.