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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
asylum (plural asylums or asyla)
- A place of safety or refuge.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 295:
- All the busy concerns of daily existence were utterly abhorrent to me. I loathed the sound of others' voices—I hated to be mixed up with their petty routine of ordinary cares; here was an asylum offered to me—here I might lay down all the offices of humanity, and dwell beside that grave whose rest was now my only desire.
- The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
- (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
place of safety
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mental asylum
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right of asylum — see right of asylum
See also[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈsyː.lum/, [äˈs̠yːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈsi.lum/, [äˈs̬iːlum]
Noun[edit]
asȳlum n (genitive asȳlī); second declension
- asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary
- Synonyms: perfugium, latebra, receptāculum, tēctum, refugium, dēverticulum
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | asȳlum | asȳla |
| Genitive | asȳlī | asȳlōrum |
| Dative | asȳlō | asȳlīs |
| Accusative | asȳlum | asȳla |
| Ablative | asȳlō | asȳlīs |
| Vocative | asȳlum | asȳla |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “asylum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “asylum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asylum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “asylum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “asylum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “asylum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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