aedility

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noun

The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.

OriginLatin aedīlitās →
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nounaedility (plural aedilities)

plural aedilities · alternative ædility

  1. Ancient RomehistoricalThe office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.

    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
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    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

  1. Latinaedīlis“commissioner or magistrate”
  2. Latinaedīlitās
  3. Englishaedility

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

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APA

aedility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aedility

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“aedility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aedility. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aedility,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aedility.

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