pacificus

From pāx (“peace”) +‎ -ficus (“bringing, making”), related to faciō (“to make”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paːˈki.fi.kus/, [päːˈkɪfɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈt͡ʃi.fi.kus/, [päˈt͡ʃiːfikus]

pācificus (feminine pācifica, neuter pācificum, adverb pācificē); first/second-declension adjective

1. peacemaking, pacific, peaceable
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.407–408:

     pāce Cerēs laeta est; et vōs ōrātē, colōnī,
     perpetuam pācem pācificumque ducem

     Ceres delights in peace; and you, farmers –
     pray for perpetual peace and a peacemaking ruler.
     (See Ceres (mythology).)

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.3.17:

     viae eius viae pulchrae et omnēs sēmitae illīus pācificae

     Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

First/second-declension adjective.

• (peacemaking): pācificātōrius

• (antonym(s) of “peacemaking”): bellicōsus

• pācificē

• “pacificus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pacificus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pacificus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.