orificium
Latin
Etymology
From ōs (“mouth”) + faciō (“I make”) + -ium.
Noun
ōrificium n (genitive ōrificiī or ōrificī); second declension
- (Late Latin) opening, orifice
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ōrificium | ōrificia |
Genitive | ōrificiī ōrificī1 | ōrificiōrum |
Dative | ōrificiō | ōrificiīs |
Accusative | ōrificium | ōrificia |
Ablative | ōrificiō | ōrificiīs |
Vocative | ōrificium | ōrificia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Catalan: orifici
- Italian: orificio
- Piedmontese: orifissi
- Portuguese: orifício
- Spanish: orificio
References
- “orificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- orificium 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)
- orificium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette