Oficialiomis

Oficialiomis is the instrumental plural feminine form of the Lithuanian adjective oficialus, meaning official. It appears when the adjective modifies feminine plural nouns in the instrumental case, a mood used in Lithuanian to indicate means, manner, or instrument. As with other adjectives, it agrees with its noun in gender, number, and case.

In practice, oficialiomis is most commonly encountered in formal or bureaucratic texts. It appears in phrases describing how something is done or funded, for example: oficialiomis lėšomis (with official funds) and oficialiomis priemonėmis (with official means). The form signals that the action or attribute is associated with official sources or authorities and modifies feminine plural nouns such as lėšos (funds) or priemonės (means).

Morphologically, ofic ial iomis shows the standard Lithuanian pattern of building the instrumental plural feminine ending on a root adjective. The stem oficial- combines with the feminine plural instrumental suffix -iomis, producing a form that functions adjetivally within noun phrases. It is not a standalone noun but a grammatical form used to describe feminine plural nouns in instrumental context. The usage is characteristic of formal language, legalese, and public administration where precision about means or rights is required.

Etymology traces oficialus to the Latin-based family of words adopted into Lithuanian through historical contact with other Baltic and Slavic languages, with standard Lithuanian inflection applied to yield the instrumental plural feminine form oficialiomis. Related forms include other gender-and-numbered variants of oficialus, used to describe different nouns within the same sentence.