beneficium

Latin

Alternative forms

• benificium

Etymology

From beneficus (“beneficent”) +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /be.neˈfi.ki.um/, [bɛnɛˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /be.neˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [bɛnɛˈfiːt͡ʃium]

Noun

beneficium n (genitive beneficiī or beneficī); second declension

1. benefit
2. favour, favor (act)
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

• → Breton: benveg
• → Catalan: benefici
• → French: bénéfice
• → Galician: beneficio
• → Italian: beneficio

• → Occitan: benefici
• → Portuguese: benefício
• → Romanian: beneficiu
• → Spanish: beneficio
• → Welsh: benthyg

References

• beneficium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• beneficium in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
• beneficium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• beneficium in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
  • 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, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898
• beneficium in William Smith et al., editor, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin, 1890