refugium

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English

Etymology

From Latin refugium. Doublet of refuge.

Noun

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refugium (plural refugia or refugiums)

  1. Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
    • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 113:
      Beetles fly, many ants send forth massive swarms of reproductive alate females and males, arachnids and insect predators emerge from their hidden refugia, and termite swarm.
  2. (aquaculture) A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc.

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Latin

Etymology

From refugiō (“flee back, escape”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

refugium n (genitive refugiī or refugī); second declension

  1. refuge
    Synonyms: perfugium, asȳlum, tēctum, receptāculum, dēverticulum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative refugium refugia
Genitive refugiī
refugī1 		refugiōrum
Dative refugiō refugiīs
Accusative refugium refugia
Ablative refugiō refugiīs
Vocative refugium refugia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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References

  • “refugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “refugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • refugium 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)
  • refugium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • refugium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Etymology

From Latin refugium.

Noun

refugium n (definite singular refugiet, indefinite plural refugier, definite plural refugia or refugiene)

  1. (biology, ecology) a refugium (area where an organism can survive unfavourable conditions)

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