aedility

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings. Ancient-Rome,historical
    — Their trunke or hand is most easie to be cut off; for so it happened in the aedility or temple office of Claudius, Antonius and Posthumus being consuls...

词形变化

aedilities plural ædility alternative

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin aedīlitās, from Latin aedīlis (“commissioner or magistrate”), from aedēs + -īlis. By surface analysis, aedile + -ity.
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