exsilium
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From exsul (“an exiled person”) + -ium.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈsi.li.um/, [ɛkˈs̠ɪlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈsi.li.um/, [eɡˈziːlium]
Noun[edit]
exsilium n (genitive exsiliī or exsilī); second declension
- exile, banishment
- (poetic) place of exile, retreat
- (figuratively, in the plural) exiles; exiled people
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | exsilium | exsilia |
| Genitive | exsiliī exsilī1 |
exsiliōrum |
| Dative | exsiliō | exsiliīs |
| Accusative | exsilium | exsilia |
| Ablative | exsiliō | exsiliīs |
| Vocative | exsilium | exsilia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms[edit]
- (exile, banishment): acula
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References[edit]
- “exsilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exsilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exsilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to banish a person, send him into exile: in exsilium eicere or expellere aliquem
- to go into exile: in exsilium ire, pergere, proficisci
- (ambiguous) to punish by banishment: aliquem exsilio afficere, multare
- (ambiguous) to live in exile: in exsilio esse, exsulem esse
- to banish a person, send him into exile: in exsilium eicere or expellere aliquem
- “exsilium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “exsilium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin