different between environment vs refugium

English

Etymology

From Middle French environnement, equivalent to environ +? -ment. Compare French environnement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?va???(n)m?nt/, /?n?va??(n)m?nt/, /-m?nt/, /?n?-/

Noun

environment (plural environments)

1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
2. The natural world or ecosystem.
3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
5. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

6. (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
7. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

Synonyms

• umbworld

Derived terms

Related terms

• environ
• environmentalist
• environmentalism

Translations

References

• environment at OneLook Dictionary Search
• environment in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• environment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• environment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Latin refugium. Doublet of refuge.

Noun

refugium (plural refugia or refugiums)

1. Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
2. (aquaculture) A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc.

Derived terms

• refugial
• microrefugium

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From re- (“back, again”) + fugi? (“flee”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re?fu.?i.um/, [r??f??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re?fu.d??i.um/, [r??fu?d??ium]

Noun

refugium n (genitive refugi? or refug?); second declension

1. refuge

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Descendants

References

• refugium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• refugium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• refugium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• refugium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• refugium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin refugium

Noun

refugium n (definite singular refugiet, indefinite plural refugier, definite plural refugia or refugiene)

1. (biology, ecology) a refugium (area where an organism can survive unfavourable conditions)

References

• “refugium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).