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English
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Etymology
From Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, a classical borrowing of Latin aedificium (“building”), derived from aedificāre (“to build, establish”) (whence also English edify).
Pronunciation
Noun
edifice (plural edifices)
- A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one.
- An abstract structure; a school of thought.
1904, Edward S. Holden, “Copernicus”, in Popular science monthly, volume 65, page 117:The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed?
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Translations
building
- Arabic: بِنَاء (ar) m (bināʔ), مَبْنَى (ar) m (mabnā), بِنَايَة (ar) m (bināya)
- Breton: savadur (br) m
- Bulgarian: зда́ние (bg) n (zdánie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大廈／大厦 (zh) (dàshà), 建築物／建筑物 (zh) (jiànzhùwù)
- Dutch: bouwwerk (nl) n, gebouw (nl) n
- Finnish: rakennelma (fi)
- French: édifice (fr) m
- Galician: edificio (gl) m
- German: Bauwerk (de) n, Gebäude (de) n
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐍉 f (gatimrjō)
- Greek: κτήριο (el) n (ktírio)
- Hebrew: בניין (he) m (binyán)
- Hindi: इमारत (hi) (imārat), भवन (hi) (bhavan)
- Hungarian: építmény (hu)
- Icelandic: bygging (is) f, hús (is) n
- Italian: edificio (it) m
- Japanese: 建築物 (ja) (kenchikubutsu)
- Latin: aedificium (la) n
- Norwegian: byggverk n
- Plautdietsch: Bu m
- Polish: gmach (pl) m
- Portuguese: edifício (pt) m, prédio (pt) m
- Romanian: edificiu (ro) n
- Russian: зда́ние (ru) n (zdánije)
- Spanish: edificio (es) m
- Swahili: jengo (sw)
- Swedish: byggnadsverk (sv), bygge (sv) n, konstruktion (sv) c
- Tagalog: edipisyo, gusali (tl)
- Tamil: கட்டடம் (ta) (kaṭṭaṭam)
- Telugu: కట్టడము (te) (kaṭṭaḍamu)
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References
- “edifice”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “edifice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.