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aedility

aedility noun: the office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.

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
    • To commemorate his aedility Agrippa added public games lasting for 59 days as well as free admission to 170 public baths.2013, Jacob Isager, “Book 36: Marble art and architecture”, in Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art

Forms of aedility

pluralaedilities
alternative formædility

Origin of aedility

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

Questions about aedility

What does aedility mean?
Aedility means the office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.
What part of speech is aedility?
Aedility is a noun.
What is the plural of aedility?
The plural of aedility is aedilities.

Words near aedility in the dictionary

  1. aedileship
  2. aedileships
  3. aedilian
  4. aedilic
  5. aedilities
  6. aedility
  7. aedine
  8. Aedo
  9. aedoe-
  10. AEDs
  11. AEDST

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