asylum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]asylum (countable and uncountable, plural asylums or asyla)
- A place of safety or refuge.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 295:
- All the busy concerns of daily existence were utterly abhorrent to me. I loathed the sound of others' voices—I hated to be mixed up with their petty routine of ordinary cares; here was an asylum offered to me—here I might lay down all the offices of humanity, and dwell beside that grave whose rest was now my only desire.
- (uncountable) The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
- 2020 August 5, Francesca Spinelli, “Meet David: born in France, raised in Belgium, facing removal to the DRC”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 5 January 2021:
- So lawyers started filing separate asylum requests for the children, arguing that reintegrating in countries they barely knew, after spending their childhood or adolescence in Belgium, would not only be impossible but would expose them to serious risks.
- (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]place of safety
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mental asylum — see also mental hospital
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right of asylum — see right of asylum
Verb
[edit]asylum (third-person singular simple present asylums, present participle asyluming, simple past and past participle asylumed) (dated)
- to place in an asylum
- 1913, Marie Belloc Lowndes, chapter III, in Studies in Love & in Terror, page 144:
- It was she who in the last few years had spread abroad the notion that Charles Nagle, in the public interest, should be asylumed.
- to grant protection or refuge
- 1887, 6th Annual Session Baptist Congress:
- We have..sheltered its paupers, asylumed its orphans, clothed its nakedness.
See also
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈsyː.ɫũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈs̬iː.lum]
Noun
[edit]asȳlum n (genitive asȳlī); second declension
- asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary
- Synonyms: perfugium, latebra, receptāculum, tēctum, refugium, dēverticulum
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | asȳlum | asȳla |
| genitive | asȳlī | asȳlōrum |
| dative | asȳlō | asȳlīs |
| accusative | asȳlum | asȳla |
| ablative | asȳlō | asȳlīs |
| vocative | asȳlum | asȳla |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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
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