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Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
effugiō (present infinitive effugere, perfect active effūgī, supine effugitum); third conjugation iō-variant
- (intransitive) to flee from, escape
- Synonyms: fugiō, ēvādō, cōnfugiō, refugiō, aufugiō, prōfugiō, perfugiō, diffugiō, āvolō, ēripiō, ēlābor, lābor
- (transitive) to avoid, evade
- Synonyms: detrecto, eludo, exeo, parco, deficio
Usage notes
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References
- “effugio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “effugio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- effugio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to slip, escape from the hands: e (de) manibus effugere, elābi
- (ambiguous) to escape from the hands of the enemy: effugere, elābi e manibus hostium