profugio Latin · revision 30697

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la pro-, ine-pro *bʰug-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prɔˈfʊ.ɡi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [proˈfuː.d͡ʒi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''profugiō''' (present infinitive profugere, perfect active profūgī); third (-iō variant) conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)

+ The first syllable is normally short; a Vetus Latina manuscript has the perfect ''profugiit''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|prō-|fugiō|t1=forward, away|t2=to flee]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares [[grc|προφυγεῖν|tr=prophugeîn|t=to flee away]] in Homer.^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fugiō]] to [[itc-pro|*fugi-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰug-i-|t=to flee]], cognate with [[grc|φεύγω|tr=pheúgō]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Captivi'': a slave stole the boy and, running away (''hinc profugiēns''), sold him.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to run away or escape, and with [[ad]] to flee to someone for help (Cicero: a son wanted to take refuge with Brutus).^(OLD 2012) It is also to leave one's home or country for good, as in Terence's son who ran away because of poverty, and ''profugere in exilium''.^(OLD 2012) From Accius on it is used transitively, to flee from a person or place, as Horace's Phocaeans left their fields and homes under a curse.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “flee away”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a runaway slave.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a son leaving home.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius, transitive, of fleeing an enemy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the Phocaeans abandoning their city.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run away, [[m|en|flee]], escape.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(with [[ad]])'' To flee for help (to someone).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To leave one's home or country; to go into [[m|en|exile]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To flee from; to abandon (a place).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[profugus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fugiō]]

+ * [[refugiō]]

+ * [[cōnfugiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}