aedilis

Latin

Alternative forms

• aidīlis (Early 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.lis/, [äe̯ˈd̪iːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈdi.lis/, [eˈd̪iːlis]

Noun

aedīlis m (genitive aedīlis); third declension

1. aedile; commissioner of works

Declension

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

Case	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

• → 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’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.