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Latin
Etymology
From aurum (“gold”) + -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”).
Pronunciation
Noun
aurifex m (genitive aurificis); third declension
- A worker in gold, goldsmith.
- 77-79 AD — Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 18.23
- Acus vocatur cum per se pisitur spica tantum aurificum ad usus.
- When the beard is ground by itself, without the grain, the result is known as acus, but it is only used by goldsmiths.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “aurifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aurifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aurifex 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)
- aurifex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aurĭfex”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1006
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “aurifex”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 52