effugium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /efˈfu.ɡi.um/, [ɛfˈfʊ.ɡi.ũː]

Noun

effugium n (genitive effugiī or effugī); second declension

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

Declension

Second declension.

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).

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
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