aedificatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin aedēs

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-fakāō

Latin -ficō

Latin aedificō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin aedificātiō

From aedificō + -tiō.

Noun

aedificātiō f (genitive aedificātiōnis); third declension

1. building, constructing (act of)
2. building, structure, edifice
3. instructing, edification

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aedificātiō	aedificātiōnēs
genitive	aedificātiōnis	aedificātiōnum
dative	aedificātiōnī	aedificātiōnibus
accusative	aedificātiōnem	aedificātiōnēs
ablative	aedificātiōne	aedificātiōnibus
vocative	aedificātiō	aedificātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: edificació
• English: edification
• French: édification
• → Galician: edificación
• Italian: edificazione
• Occitan: edificacion
• → Portuguese: edificação
• Romanian: edificație
• Spanish: edificación

References

• “aedificatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aedificatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aedificatio", 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)
• “aedificatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.