Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From exsul (an exiled person) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

exsilium n (genitive exsiliī or exsilī); second declension

  1. exile, banishment
  2. (poetic) place of exile, retreat
  3. (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
  • 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