refugium

From Latin refugium. Doublet of refuge.

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.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛˈfʊ.ɡi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [reˈfuː.d͡ʒi.um]

refugium n (genitive refugiī or refugī); second declension

1. refuge

   Synonyms: perfugium, asȳlum, tēctum, receptāculum, dēverticulum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• 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, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin refugium.

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

1. (biology, ecology) a refugium (area where an organism can survive unfavourable conditions)

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