Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
fugela. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
fugela, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
fugela in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
fugela you have here. The definition of the word
fugela will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
fugela, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Latin
Etymology
From fugiō (“flee, hasten”) + -ēla.
Pronunciation
Noun
fugēla f (genitive fugēlae); first declension
- (Old Latin, Late Latin) Alternative form of fuga
- AD 6th C., Priscian (author), Heinrich Keil (editor), Institutiones Grammaticae (1855), page 88:
- Catō in Thermum: sed ā benefactīs, ab optimīs artibus fugit maximā fugēlā perpetuissimō curriculō.
- Cato against Thermus: but from benefactions, from the best skills, he runs with the greatest flight in the most continuous running.
c. 125 CE – 180 CE,
Apuleius,
Apologia 98.6:
- Cum ā nōbīs rēgerētur, ad magistrōs ītābat; ab iīs nunc magnā fugēlā in gāneum fugit, amīcōs seriōs aspernātur, cum adulēscentulīs postrēmissimīs inter scorta et pōcula puer hoc aevī convīvium agitat.
- When he was controlled by us, he went to teachers; now he runs away from them and into the eating-house with great flight, scorns his studious friends, parties with the most depraved youths between prostitutes and cups.
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “fugela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fugela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.