confugium

Latin

Etymology

From cōnfugiō (“to flee, take refuge”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

cōnfugium n (genitive cōnfugiī or cōnfugī); second declension

1. refuge, sanctuary, shelter

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfugium	cōnfugia
Genitive	cōnfugiī cōnfugī1	cōnfugiōrum
Dative	cōnfugiō	cōnfugiīs
Accusative	cōnfugium	cōnfugia
Ablative	cōnfugiō	cōnfugiīs
Vocative	cōnfugium	cōnfugia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• cōnfuga
• cōnfugēla
• refugium

References

• “confugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confugium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• confugium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.