aedilis
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *aiðīlis. See aedēs (“building”) (< Proto-Italic *aiðes, genitive of *aits, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éydʰ-s, from *h₂eydʰ- (“to ignite; fire”)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ae̯ˈdiː.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈd̪iː.lis]
Noun
aedīlis m (genitive aedīlis); third declension
- aedile; commissioner of works
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | aedīlis | aedīlēs |
| genitive | aedīlis | aedīlium |
| dative | aedīlī | aedīlibus |
| accusative | aedīlem | aedīlēs aedīlīs |
| ablative | aedīlī | aedīlibus |
| vocative | aedīlis | aedīlēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: edil (learned)
- → English: aedile
- → French: édile
- → German: Ädil
- → Ancient Greek: αἰδίλης (aidílēs)
- → Portuguese: edil
- → Spanish: edil
References
- “aedilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aedilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "aedilis", 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)
- aedilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.