confugio Latin · revision 30832

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnfugiō''' (present infinitive cōnfugere, perfect active cōnfūgī, supine cōnfugitum); third (-iō variant) conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|con-|fugiō|t2=to flee]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fugiō]] to [[itc-pro|*fugi-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰug-i-|t=to flee]], cognate with [[grc|φεύγω|tr=pheúgō|t=to flee]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Mostellaria'': ''quid cōnfūgistī in āram?'', “why have you fled to the altar?”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to flee somewhere for safety, as to an altar, and to flee to a person or god for protection, as Cicero's provincials who had not even gods to flee to.^(OLD 2012) From this it is to appeal to someone in difficulty, and to take refuge in an expedient or excuse: in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' an accused man will fall back on ignorance.^(OLD 2012) With an accusative and infinitive it is to fall back on saying something (Cicero).^(OLD 2012) Terence has a woman flee to someone's house at nightfall.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “flee, take refuge”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of fleeing to an altar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of fleeing to a house.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' of falling back on an excuse.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of fleeing to the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To flee (to) for safety, take [[m|en|refuge]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|appeal]] (to someone) for help.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To have recourse (to), fall back (on).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnfuga]]

+ * [[confugēla]]

+ * [[cōnfugium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fugiō]]

+ * [[profugiō]]

+ * [[refugiō]]

+ * [[perfugium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}