refugium

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refugium (plural refugia or refugiums)

1. Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
   • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 113:

     Beetles fly, many ants send forth massive swarms of reproductive alate females and males, arachnids and insect predators emerge from their hidden refugia, and termite swarm.

2. (aquaculture) A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc.

• refugial
• microrefugium

From refugiō (“flee back, escape”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈfu.ɡi.um/, [rɛˈfʊɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈfu.d͡ʒi.um/, [reˈfuːd͡ʒium]

refugium n (genitive refugiī or refugī); second declension

1. refuge

   Synonyms: perfugium, asȳlum, tēctum, receptāculum, dēverticulum

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• cōnfugium
• refuga

• “refugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “refugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• refugium 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)
• refugium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• refugium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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refugium n (definite singular refugiet, indefinite plural refugier, definite plural refugia or refugiene)

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• “refugium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).