aedile en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈiːdaɪl/
Etymology
From Latin aedīlis (“commissioner or magistrate”), from aedēs + -īlis.
Meanings
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(Ancient-Rome, historical) An elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, regulation of festivals, supervision of markets and the supply of grain and water.
Some of these encroachments may have received permission from the town council or the local aediles. A handful of painted notices found on the outside of the Amphitheatre suggest that it was the aediles who authorised the street vendors plying their trade underneath the monument’s arches, and assigned their pitches: ‘By permission of the aediles. Licensed to Caius Aninius Fortunatus’ etc., as the faint and fragmentary Latin seems to say.
2010, Mary Beard, chapter 2, in Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| aediles | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| edile | alternative | lexicographic | |
| ædile | alternative, archaic | lexicographic |
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Translations (19)
es edil (elected official in Ancient Rome) · da ædil (elected official in Ancient Rome) · es regidor (elected official in Ancient Rome) · xfa efile (efile) (elected official in Ancient Rome) · cs aedil (elected official in Ancient Rome) · he אַידִיל (elected official in Ancient Rome) · fr édile (elected official in Ancient Rome) · ru эди́л (elected official in Ancient Rome) · la aedīlis (elected official in Ancient Rome) · scn èdili (elected official in Ancient Rome) · it edile (elected official in Ancient Rome) · mk едил (elected official in Ancient Rome) · ca edil (elected official in Ancient Rome) · la aidilis (elected official in Ancient Rome) · pt edil (elected official in Ancient Rome) · fi ediili (elected official in Ancient Rome) · grc ἀγορανόμος (elected official in Ancient Rome) · pl edyl (elected official in Ancient Rome) · de Ädil (elected official in Ancient Rome)