aurificium

Latin edit

From aurifex (“goldsmith”) +‎ -ium, from aurum (“gold”) + facio (“I do, make”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯.riˈfi.ki.um/, [äu̯rɪˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯.riˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [äu̯riˈfiːt͡ʃium]

aurificium n (genitive aurificiī or aurificī); second declension

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

aurificium 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)