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Noun
fugo (accusative singular fugon, plural fugoj, accusative plural fugojn)
- fugue
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfu.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -uɡo
- Hyphenation: fù‧go
Verb
fugo
- first-person singular present indicative of fugare
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Latin
Etymology
From fuga (“flight, escape, exile”).
Pronunciation
Verb
fugō (present infinitive fugāre, perfect active fugāvī, supine fugātum); first conjugation
- to chase away, put to flight
- Synonym: āvertō
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- C. Sulpicio cui Sicilia euenerat duae legiones quas P. Cornelius habuisset decretae et supplementum de exercitu Cn. Fului, qui priore anno in Apulia foede caesus fugatusque erat.
- To Gaius Sulpicius to whom Sicily was allotted two legions which Publius Cornelius had held were decided upon and reinforcements from Gnaius Fulvius’ army, which in the previous year had been shamefully defeated decisively and put to flight in Apulia
- to drive into exile
- Synonyms: exsulō, exigō, ablēgō, expellō, eximō, āmoveō, auferō, exportō, pellō, ēiciō
- to dismiss, to avert
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References
- “fugo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fugo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fugo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to put the enemy to flight: fugare hostem
- to utterly rout the enemy: fundere et fugare hostem
- (ambiguous) to keep out of a person's sight: fugere alicuius conspectum, aspectum
- (ambiguous) to follow virtue; to flee from vice: honesta expetere; turpia fugere
- (ambiguous) to shun society: hominum coetus, congressus fugere
- (ambiguous) to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere
- (ambiguous) to flee like deer, sheep: pecorum modo fugere (Liv. 40. 27)
Spanish
Verb
fugo
- first-person singular present indicative of fugar