Noun: aurifex
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | aurifex |
| Plural | aurificēs |
Genitive
| Singular | aurificis |
| Plural | aurificum |
Dative
| Singular | aurificī |
| Plural | aurificibus |
Accusative
| Singular | aurificem |
| Plural | aurificēs |
Ablative
| Singular | aurifice |
| Plural | aurificibus |
Vocative
| Singular | aurifex |
| Plural | aurificēs |
Sample Sentences
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Acus vocatur cum per se pisitur spica tantum aurificum ad usus. (When the beard is ground by itself, without the grain, the result is known as acus, but it is only used by goldsmiths.) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 18.23]
Nouns inflected like aurifex
pannifex,
dapifex,
organifex,
pānifex,
Sirex,
complex,
signifex,
carnifex,
ō̆bex,
suffrutex,
aedifex,
iūdex,
latex,
jūdex,
culex,
index,
fāmex,
illex,
objex,
offex, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-der.
3. Proto-Italic *auzom
4. Latin aurum
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
6. Proto-Italic *-faks
7. Latin -fex
8. Latin aurifex
9. From aurum (“gold”) + -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”).
Verbs referencing "aurifex"
Italian Nouns
orefice, Italian Nouns
orafo, Portuguese Nouns
ourives, Spanish Nouns
orebce, Old Portuguese Nouns
ourivez, Galician Nouns
ourive.
Translations