beneficium

Latin

Alternative forms

• benificium

Etymology

bene (“well”, “good”) +‎ -ficium (“-making”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

beneficium n (genitive beneficiī); second declension

1. benefit
2. favour
3. kindness

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	beneficium	beneficia
genitive	beneficiī	beneficiōrum
dative	beneficiō	beneficiīs
accusative	beneficium	beneficia
ablative	beneficiō	beneficiīs
vocative	beneficium	beneficia

Descendants

• French: bénéfice
• Italian: beneficio
• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “beneficium”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “beneficium” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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