effugium

From effugiō (“to escape, flee from, avoid, shun”) +‎ -ium.

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

effugium n (genitive effugiī or effugī); second declension

1. an escape, flight
2. a means or way of escape

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• effugātiō
• effugiō
• effugius
• effugō

• “effugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “effugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• effugium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.