transfugio Latin · revision 32177

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *bʰug-i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trānsfugiō''' (present infinitive trānsfugere, perfect active trānsfūgī, supine trānsfugitum); third (-iō variant) conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trāns-|fugiō|t1=across|t2=to flee]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fugiō]] to [[itc-pro|*fug-i-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰug-i-|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==

+ The OLD's first example is in Cato's ''Origines'': many men often deserted to the enemy at once.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to go over to the enemy or desert, also of changing sides in politics.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it very rare and cite Livy, of men let down from the wall by ropes who deserted to the Romans in the night, as well as Nepos, Suetonius and Tacitus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) With an accusative Statius uses it of escaping through something, as the winters of Euboea a sailor had often escaped in a small boat.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of men deserting to the enemy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of deserters let down from a wall.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius of escaping through storms.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To go over to the enemy, [[m|en|desert]]; to change sides.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With an accusative, to escape through; figuratively, to [[m|en|elude]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[trānsfuga]]

+ * [[transfugium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fugio|alt=fugiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}