aedilitas Latin · revision 32028

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂eydʰ-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aedīlitās''' ''f'' (genitive aedīlitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aedīlis|-tās|t1=aedile]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The aedile was named from [[m|la|aedēs|t=temple, house]],^(de Vaan 2008) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*aiþ-|t=fireplace]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eydʰ-|alt=*h₂(e)idʰ-|t=burning]]: the noun first meant the hearth, then a room with a hearth and a one-room temple.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|áed|t=fire]], [[grc|αἴθω|tr=aíthō|t=to burn]] and [[ang|ād|t=pyre]].^(de Vaan 2008) The title [[osc|aídíl]] was borrowed from Latin.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Stichus'' has ''aedilitatem gerere'' “to hold the aedileship”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the office of an aedile at Rome, as in Cicero's man who had twice been defeated for the aedileship, and a particular tenure of it, as Cicero's “most splendid aedileships”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius uses it of the office of a town's aedile, held by Albucius Silus in his native Novara.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval texts it is the office of custodian in a house of canons.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of holding the aedileship.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of candidates and tenures of the office.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of a municipal aedile.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – Of a custodian of canons.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The office of an [[m|en|aedile]], the [[m|en|aedileship]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The office of a municipal aedile.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The office of custodian in a house of [[m|en|canon|alt=canons]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aedilis|alt=aedīlis]]

+ * [[aedes|alt=aedēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}