transfuga

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See also: tránsfuga, and trânsfuga

Italian

Etymology

From Latin trānsfuga.

Pronunciation

Noun

transfuga m or f by sense (masculine plural transfughi, feminine plural transfughe)

  1. (literary) deserter, fugitive
  2. (politics, figurative, by extension) one who has left a political party with which he was previously affiliated; defector, turncoat

References

  1. ^ transfuga in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • transfuga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From trānsfugiō (“desert”) +‎ -a (agent noun).

Pronunciation

Noun

trānsfuga m (genitive trānsfugae); first declension

  1. a deserter

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative trānsfuga trānsfugae
genitive trānsfugae trānsfugārum
dative trānsfugae trānsfugīs
accusative trānsfugam trānsfugās
ablative trānsfugā trānsfugīs
vocative trānsfuga trānsfugae

Descendants

References

  • “transfuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “transfuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • transfuga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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