fugax Latin · revision 31752

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfʊ.ɡaːks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈfuː.ɡaks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fugāx''' (genitive fugācis, comparative fugācior, superlative fugācissimus, adverb fugāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|fuga|-āx|t1=flight]],^(OLD 2012) the adjective of tendency to [[m|la|fugiō|t=to flee]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) The verb goes back to [[itc-pro|*fugiō]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰewg-|t=to flee]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|φεύγω|tr=pheúgō|t=to flee]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Persa'' has it in a string of insults for a slave: “glutton, thief, runaway”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means apt to run away, evasive or elusive: of runaway slaves, of the fruit that retreats from Tantalus in Ovid, and with a genitive of a person who avoids something.^(OLD 2012) In poetry it is fleeing or speeding away, swift, as Horace's “fleeting years” and his “hurrying water”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca uses it of short-lived pleasure, “quickly over, transient”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval texts it is a runaway serf.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a runaway slave.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the fleeting years.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of transient pleasure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – Of a runaway serf.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ * 1630s – Its stem gives English [[m|en|fugacious]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Prone to run away, [[m|en|elusive]], [[m|en|fugitive]]; of slaves, runaway.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Avoiding (with genitive).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Fleeing, swift; of time, [[m|en|fleeting]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Quickly over, [[m|en|transient]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of a serf, runaway.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fugācitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fugio|alt=fugiō]]

+ * [[fuga]]

+ * [[en|fugacious]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}