aedilis

Latin

Alternative forms

• aidīlis (Old 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯ˈdiː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈdiː.lis]

Noun

aedīlis m (genitive aedīlis); third declension

1. aedile; commissioner of works

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	aedīlis	aedīlēs
genitive	aedīlis	aedīlium
dative	aedīlī	aedīlibus
accusative	aedīlem	aedīlēs aedīlīs
ablative	aedīlī	aedīlibus
vocative	aedīlis	aedīlēs

Derived terms

• aedīlitās
• aedīlīcius

Descendants

• Italian: edile
• → Catalan: edil (learned)
• → English: aedile
• → French: édile
• → German: Ädil
• → Ancient Greek: αἰδίλης (aidílēs)
• → Portuguese: edil
• → Spanish: edil

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, 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.