panificium

Latin

Etymology

From pānis (“bread”) + faciō (“do, make”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paː.niˈfi.ki.um/, [päːnɪˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.niˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [päniˈfiːt͡ʃium]

Noun

pānificium n (genitive pānificiī or pānificī); second declension

1. bread making
2. anything baked; bread, cakes
3. loaf

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pānificium	pānificia
Genitive	pānificiī pānificī1	pānificiōrum
Dative	pānificiō	pānificiīs
Accusative	pānificium	pānificia
Ablative	pānificiō	pānificiīs
Vocative	pānificium	pānificia

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

Synonyms

• (anything baked): pānicium

Related terms

• pānāriolum
• pānārium
• pānārius
• pānicellus

• pāniceus
• pānicium
• pānicoctārius
• pānifex

• pānifica
• pānis
• pānōsus

References

• “panificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• panificium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.