Office: "Office" is an old profession of food, the office is all the servants in charge of the service of the table; we also say the staff of the office. Initially, an office is the service of the table. The paring knife has kept its attribute of the time.
By metonymy, an office is a charge; the person who performs this function is an officer.
Under the Ancien Régime, the officers (even of noble status) attached to the service of a great personage were servants.
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