English Online Dictionary. What means asylum? What does asylum mean?
English
Etymology
From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈsaɪləm/
Noun
asylum (plural asylums or asyla)
- A place of safety or refuge.
- The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
- (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
Synonyms
- sanctuary
- shelter
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- non-refoulement
- refugee
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈsyː.lum/, [äˈs̠yːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈsi.lum/, [äˈs̬iːlum]
Noun
asȳlum n (genitive asȳlī); second declension
- asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary
- Synonyms: perfugium, latebra, receptāculum, tēctum, refugium, dēverticulum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “asylum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “asylum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asylum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “asylum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “asylum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “asylum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin