beneficium

Latin

Alternative forms

• benificium

Etymology

From beneficus (“beneficent”) +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /be.neˈfi.ki.um/, [bɛ.nɛˈfɪ.ki.ʊ̃]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /be.neˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [be.neˈfiː.t͡ʃi.um]

Noun

beneficium n (genitive beneficiī or beneficī); second declension

1. benefit
2. favour
3. kindness

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	beneficium	beneficia
Genitive	beneficiī beneficī1	beneficiōrum
Dative	beneficiō	beneficiīs
Accusative	beneficium	beneficia
Ablative	beneficiō	beneficiīs
Vocative	beneficium	beneficia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Catalan: benefici
• → French: bénéfice
• Galician: beneficio
• Italian: beneficio
• Occitan: benefici
• Portuguese: benefício
• Spanish: beneficio

References

• beneficium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• beneficium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• beneficium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• beneficium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to do any one a service or kindness: beneficium alicui dare, tribuere
    
  • to do any one a service or kindness: beneficio aliquem afficere, ornare
    
  • to heap benefits upon..: beneficia in aliquem conferre
    
  • to lay any one under an obligation by kind treatment: beneficiis aliquem obstringere, obligare, devincire
    
  • to (richly) recompense a kindness or service: beneficium remunerari or reddere (cumulate)
    
  • to return good for evil: pro maleficiis beneficia reddere
    
  • prerogative, privilege: ius praecipuum, beneficium, donum, also immunitas c. Gen.
    
• beneficium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• beneficium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin