aurificium

From aurifex (“goldsmith”) +‎ -ium, from aurum (“gold”) + facio (“I do, make”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯.rɪˈfɪ.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯.riˈfiː.t͡ʃi.um]

aurificium n (genitive aurificiī or aurificī); second declension

1. A gold-washing site.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• "aurificium", 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)