beneficium
Latin
Alternative forms
- benificium
Etymology
From beneficus (“beneficent”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /be.neˈfi.ki.um/, [bɛnɛˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /be.neˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [beneˈfiːt͡ʃium]
Noun
beneficium n (genitive beneficiī or beneficī); second declension
- benefit
- favour, favor, kindness, service
- Synonyms: favor, indulgentia, pietās, cōmitās, benignitās, benevolentia, venia
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | beneficium | beneficia |
| Genitive | beneficiī beneficī1 | beneficiōrum |
| Dative | beneficiō | beneficiīs |
| Accusative | beneficium | beneficia |
| Ablative | beneficiō | beneficiīs |
| Vocative | beneficium | beneficia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → Breton: benveg
- → Catalan: benefici
- → English: beneficium
- → French: bénéfice
- → Galician: beneficio
- → Italian: beneficio
- → Occitan: benefici
- → Portuguese: benefício
- → Romanian: beneficiu
- → Spanish: beneficio
- → Welsh: benthyg
References
- “beneficium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “beneficium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- beneficium 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)
- beneficium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to do any one a service or kindness: beneficium alicui dare, tribuere
- to do any one a service or kindness: beneficio aliquem afficere, ornare
- to heap benefits upon..: beneficia in aliquem conferre
- to lay any one under an obligation by kind treatment: beneficiis aliquem obstringere, obligare, devincire
- to (richly) recompense a kindness or service: beneficium remunerari or reddere (cumulate)
- to return good for evil: pro maleficiis beneficia reddere
- prerogative, privilege: ius praecipuum, beneficium, donum, also immunitas c. Gen.
- to do any one a service or kindness: beneficium alicui dare, tribuere
- “beneficium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “beneficium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin