effugium

Latin

Etymology

From effugiō (“to escape, flee from, avoid, shun”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /efˈfu.ɡi.um/, [ɛfˈfʊɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /efˈfu.d͡ʒi.um/, [efˈfuːd͡ʒium]

Noun

effugium n (genitive effugiī or effugī); second declension

1. an escape, flight
2. a means or way of escape

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	effugium	effugia
Genitive	effugiī effugī1	effugiōrum
Dative	effugiō	effugiīs
Accusative	effugium	effugia
Ablative	effugiō	effugiīs
Vocative	effugium	effugia

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

Related terms

• effugātiō
• effugiō
• effugius
• effugō

References

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