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masculine

/eðiˈfiθjo/ ES

/eðiˈfisjo/ MX

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Translation

building

Word origin

From Latin aedificium ('building'), from aedificare ('to build'), from aedes ('dwelling, temple') plus facere ('to make'). The same root gives English edifice and edify.

Origin: Latin
Root: aedificium
English cognates: edifice, edify

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluraledificios

Examples

This building is over a hundred years old.

We live in a six-storey building.

The new building will be made of glass.

The building where I live has ten tall floors.

They have painted the whole building white.

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This word is part of lesson 16.