Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Officina

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

OFFICI'NA (ἐργαστήριον). A workshop, manufactory, or place in which any handicraft trade is carried on (Cic. Off. i. 42.); as contradistinguished from taberna, a shop where retail goods are sold, and from apotheca, a magazine or store; the particular kind being indicated by the name of the workmen employed in it; as, officina fullonum (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 40. § 39.), of fullers and scourers; tingentium (id. ix. 62.), of dyers; aerariorum (Id. xvi. 8.), of smiths; cetariorum (Columell. viii. 17. 12.), of dry salters; and so on.