orificium

Latin

Etymology

From ōs (“mouth”) +‎ faciō (“I make”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

ōrificium n (genitive ōrificiī or ōrificī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) opening, orifice

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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

• Catalan: orifici
• Dalmatian: orificio
• French: orifice
• Italian: orificio
• Piedmontese: orifissi
• Portuguese: orifício
• Romanian: orificiu
• Spanish: orificio

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.