refugium

See also: Refugium

English

Etymology

From Latin refugium. Doublet of refuge.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• refugial
• microrefugium

Translations

habitat

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: refugium n

• Polish: ostoja (pl) f

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈfu.ɡi.um/, [rɛˈfʊɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈfu.d͡ʒi.um/, [reˈfuːd͡ʒium]

Noun

refugium n (genitive refugiī or refugī); second declension

1. refuge

   Synonyms: perfugium, asȳlum, tēctum, receptāculum, dēverticulum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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

• Asturian: refuxu
• Catalan: refugi
• English: refugium
• Galician: refuxio
• German: Refugium
• Italian: rifugio
• Old French: refuge, reffuge, refiuge, refuje
  • French: refuge
    • → Turkish: refüj
  • → Middle English: refuge, reffuge, reyfuge
    • English: refuge
• Piedmontese: arfugi, rifugi
• Portuguese: refúgio
• Romanian: refugiu
• 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], 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)

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

References

• “refugium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).