Noun: aedility
| Singular | aedility |
| Plural | aedilities |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like aedility
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin aedīlitās, from Latin aedīlis (“commissioner or magistrate”), from aedēs + -īlis. By surface analysis, aedile + -ity. See: Latin Nouns '
aedīlis'.