Latin

Alternative forms

• exilium

Noun

exsilium n ‎(genitive exsiliī); second declension

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

Declension

Second declension.

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

Synonyms

• (exile, banishment): acula

Related terms

• exsul

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exsilium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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