aurificium

Latin

From aurifex (“goldsmith”) +‎ -ium, from aurum (“gold”) + facio (“I do, make”).

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯.riˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [äu̯riˈfiːt͡ʃium]

aurificium n (genitive aurificiī or aurificī); second declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

aurificium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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