The story
- Latin · derived fromaedificium“building”
- Old French · derived fromedifice
- Middle English · inherited fromedifice
- English todayedifice
From Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, a classical borrowing of Latin aedificium (“building”), derived from aedificāre (“to build, establish”) (whence also English edify).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.