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Latin
Etymology
From pāx (“peace”) + -ficus (“bringing, making”), related to faciō (“to make”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
pācificus (feminine pācifica, neuter pācificum, adverb pācificē); first/second-declension adjective
- peacemaking, pacific, peaceable
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.407–408:
- pāce Cerēs laeta est; et vōs ōrātē, colōnī,
perpetuam pācem pācificumque ducem- Ceres delights in peace; and you, farmers –
pray for perpetual peace and a peacemaking ruler.
(See Ceres (mythology).)
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.3.17:
- viae eius viae pulchrae et omnēs sēmitae illīus pācificae
- Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.
(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “pacificus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pacificus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pacificus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.