aedificium

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Etymology

From aedificō +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯.diˈfi.ki.um/, [äe̯d̪ɪˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.diˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [ed̪iˈfiːt͡ʃium]

Noun

aedificium n (genitive aedificiī or aedificī); second declension

1. building, edifice, structure
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.6:

     Caesar partitis copiis cum Gaio Fabio legato et Marco Crasso quaestore celeriterque effectis pontibus adit tripertito, aedificia vicosque incendit, magno pecoris atque hominum numero potitur.

     Caesar, having divided his forces with C. Fabius, his lieutenant, and M. Crassus his questor, and having hastily constructed some bridges, enters their country in three divisions, burns their houses and villages, and gets possession of a large number of cattle and men.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	aedificium	aedificia
genitive	aedificiī aedificī1	aedificiōrum
dative	aedificiō	aedificiīs
accusative	aedificium	aedificia
ablative	aedificiō	aedificiīs
vocative	aedificium	aedificia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Asturian: edificiu
• Catalan: edifici
• → English: edifice
• → French: édifice
• → Galician: edificio
• Italian: edificio
• Portuguese: edifício
• Romanian: edificiu
• Spanish: edificio

References

• “aedificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aedificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aedificium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “aedificium”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set buildings on fire: accendere, incendere aedificia
    
  • to erect a building, a monument: exstruere aedificium, monumentum