edifice — simply put, an edifice is just a building. Usually, it is a larger building, but an edifice is just a building, nevertheless.
edificio — this is the Spanish cognate (and it’s the Italian one, too), and you can see that the two words are spelled the very same except at the ends of each. This is the common word for a building in Spanish, unlike i…
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