beneficium

Latin

From beneficus (“beneficent”) +‎ -ium

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /be.neˈfi.ki.um/, [bɛnɛˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /be.neˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [beneˈfiːt͡ʃium]

beneficium n (genitive beneficiī or beneficī); second declension

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

“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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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