aedilityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin aedilis (“commissioner or magistrate”).

名詞

aedility (plural aedilities)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.
   • 1604, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts:

     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...

   • 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:

     To commemorate his aedility Agrippa added public games lasting for 59 days as well as free admission to 170 public baths.

関連する語

• aedile

アナグラム

• ideality