exsilium

Latin

Alternative forms

• exilium

Etymology

From exsul (“an exiled person”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛksˈsɪ.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eksˈsiː.li.um]

Noun

exsilium n (genitive exsiliī or exsilī); second declension

1. exile, banishment
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.20:

     Ēgredere ex urbe, Catilīna, līberā rem pūblicam metū; in exsilium, sī hanc vōcem exspectās: proficīscere.

     Depart from the city, Catiline, free the republic from fear; into exile, if that is the word you await: set out.

2. (poetic) place of exile, retreat
3. (figuratively, in the plural) exiles; exiled people

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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

• (exile, banishment): acula

Related terms

• exsul

Descendants

• Asturian: exiliu
• Aromanian: shilji
• Catalan: exili
• English: exile
• French: exil
• Galician: exilio
• German: Exil
• Italian: esilio
• Occitan: exili
• Old French: essil
• Old Galician-Portuguese: eixillo
• Piedmontese: esili
• Portuguese: exílio
• Romanian: exil
• Spanish: exilio

References

• “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, 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