Latin

Alternative forms

• benificium

Noun

beneficium n ‎(genitive beneficiī); second declension

1. benefit
2. favour
3. kindness

Declension

Second declension.

Descendants

• French: bénéfice
• Spanish: beneficio

References

• beneficium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• beneficium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• BENEFICIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “beneficium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to do any one a service or kindness: beneficium alicui dare, tribuere
    
  • to do any one a service or kindness: beneficio aliquem afficere, ornare
    
  • to heap benefits upon..: beneficia in aliquem conferre
    
  • to lay any one under an obligation by kind treatment: beneficiis aliquem obstringere, obligare, devincire
    
  • to (richly) recompense a kindness or service: beneficium remunerari or reddere (cumulate)
    
  • to return good for evil: pro maleficiis beneficia reddere
    
  • prerogative, privilege: ius praecipuum, beneficium, donum, also immunitas c. Gen.
    
• beneficium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• beneficium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin