refugium
See also: Refugium
English
Etymology
From Latin refugium. Doublet of refuge.
Noun
refugium (plural refugia or refugiums)
- 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.
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- (aquaculture) A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc.
Derived terms
- refugial
- microrefugium
Translations
habitat
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Latin
Etymology
From refugiō (“flee back, escape”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈfu.ɡi.um/, [rɛˈfʊɡiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈfu.d͡ʒi.um/, [reˈfuːd͡ʒium]
Noun
refugium n (genitive refugiī or refugī); second declension
- refuge
- Synonyms: 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).
Related terms
- cōnfugium
- refuga
Descendants
Descendants of refugium in other languages
- Asturian: refuxu
- Catalan: refugi
- English: refugium
- Galician: refuxio
- German: Refugium
- Italian: rifugio
- Old French: refuge
- English: refuge
- French: refuge
- Piedmontese: arfugi, rifugi
- Portuguese: refúgio
- Spanish: refugio
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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin refugium.
Noun
refugium n (definite singular refugiet, indefinite plural refugier, definite plural refugia or refugiene)
- (biology, ecology) a refugium (area where an organism can survive unfavourable conditions)
References
- “refugium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).