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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la aedēs, la faciō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ae̯ˈdɪ.fɪ.koː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈdiː.fi.ko]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''aedificō''' (present infinitive aedificāre, perfect active aedificāvī, supine aedificātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[aedēs]] “building, temple” and the verbal element [[-ficō]], from [[faciō]] “to make”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citations are from Plautus, of building houses and ships.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to put up a building, build, construct houses, rooms and towns, and to rebuild, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to build roads and gardens, as in Varro, ships, as in Plautus, and of God to create the world, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) It also meant to build over a site and to use as building material.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Christian Latin it meant to edify, instruct, build up in faith.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Portuguese ''eiviguar'', and French ''édifier'' and Spanish ''edificar'' are borrowings.^(Wiktionary) [[en|edify]] came in the mid-14th century, first meaning “to build” and figuratively “to build up morally”, and [[en|edifice]] comes from ''aedificium'' “building”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of building houses and ships.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of roads and gardens.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of God creating the world.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-14th century – English ''edify'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|build]], construct.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To rebuild.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To make, create.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To build over (a site).^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Christian Latin)'' To [[m|en|edify]], instruct.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[aedificātiō]]
+ * [[aedificātor]]
+ * [[aedificium]]
+ * [[coaedificō]]
+ * [[exaedificō]]
+ * [[inaedificō]]
+ * [[peraedificō]]
+ * [[proaedificātus]]
+ * [[reaedificō]]
+ * [[superaedificō]]
+ * [[aedificātōrius]]
+ * [[circumaedificō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[aedēs]]
+ * [[aedicula]]
+ * [[aedificātiuncula]]
+ * [[aedīlātus]]
+ * [[aedīlīcius]]
+ * [[aedīlis]]
+ * [[aedīlitās]]
+ * [[aeditua]]
+ * [[aedituālis]]
+ * [[aedituus]]
+ * [[faciō]]
+ * [[en|edify]]
+ * [[en|edifice]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}