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ædility

ædility is the archaic form of aedility.

Meaning of aedility

Noun

aedility (plural aedilities)

  1. (Ancient-Rome, historical) The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.
    • 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...1604, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts

Origin of ædility

From Latin aedēs "building", "temple".

Questions about ædility

What is ædility the archaic form of?
Ædility is the archaic form of aedility.

Words near ædility in the dictionary

  1. ædifying
  2. ædile
  3. ædiles
  4. ædileship
  5. ædileships
  6. ædility
  7. Æduan
  8. Æduans
  9. ædœology
  10. ægagri
  11. ægagrus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ædility (page history and authors); aedility (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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