orificium
Latin
Etymology
From ōs (“mouth”) + faciō (“I make”) + -ium.
Noun
ōrificium n (genitive ōrificiī or ōrificī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| 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
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.