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Faliscan
Etymology
The Faliscan word aedilis is possibly an adaptation of the Latin word aedilis, or it could be a calque on the Middle Faliscan word Efis. If the word was adapted from another Latin word, it would have developed due to the fact that aediles took their name from the Temples of Vesta and Ceres.
Noun
aedilis
- aedile; commissioner of works
Declension
Latin
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
Noun
aedīlis m (genitive aedīlis); third declension
- aedile; commissioner of works
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).
Derived terms
Descendants
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.