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'''''Opifex''''' is a [[Latin]] word meaning [[artisan]] or [[Manufacturing|manufacturer]] and referring to a worker who created something. The word is derived from the Latin words ''opus'' ("work" or "thing") and ''facio'' ("to make"); the plural form is '''opifices'''.

The word is also used as the name of the [[genus]] ''[[Opifex (insect)|Opifex]]'' in the [[mosquito]] [[subfamily]] and in the [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] of the [[species]] ''[[Phidippus octopunctatus|Phidippus opifex]]''

The word is used in the Latin for [[Saint Joseph]] the Worker, ''Sanctus Josephus Opifex'', celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church on May 1.

Additionally, the German alchemist [[Cornelius Agrippa]] used the word in the Third Book of his ''Occult Philosophy'' to refer to God.<ref>Fernando, Diana ''Alchemy: An Illustrated A to Z'', Blandford, 1998, pp. 181</ref>

Andrew Marvell uses the phrase "opifex horti" in his neo-Latin poem "Hortus" (l. 49) to refer to the gardener.

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