perfugium

== Latin == === Etymology === From perfugiō (“to take refuge”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛrˈfʊ.ɡi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [perˈfuː.d͡ʒi.um] === Noun === perfugium n (genitive perfugiī or perfugī); second declension refuge, shelter Synonyms: latebra, receptāculum, tēctum, refugium, dēverticulum, asȳlum asylum (political) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “perfugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “perfugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “perfugium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.