Noun: aedile
| Singular | aedile |
| Plural | aediles |
Sample Sentences
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Some of these encroachments may have received permission from the town council or the local aediles. A handful of painted notices found on the outside of the Amphitheatre suggest that it was the aediles who authorised the street vendors plying their trade underneath the monument’s arches, and assigned their pitches: ‘By permission of the aediles. Licensed to Caius Aninius Fortunatus’ etc., as the faint and fragmentary Latin seems to say. [2010, Mary Beard, chapter 2, in Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town:]
Nouns inflected like aedile
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin aedīlis (“commissioner or magistrate”), from aedēs + -īlis. See: Latin Nouns '
aedīlis'.
Verbs referencing "aedile"
Finnish Nouns
ediili.