aedilityEtymologyLearned borrowing from Latin aedīlitās, from Latin aedīlis (“commissioner or magistrate”), from aedēs + -īlis. By surface analysis, aedile + -ity.aedility means the office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounThe office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.“Their trunke or hand is most easie to be cut off; for so it happened in the aedility or temple office of Claudius, Antonius and Posthumus being consuls...”