subterfugio Latin · revision 33679

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subterfugiō''' (present infinitive subterfugere, perfect active subterfūgī); third (-iō variant) conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''supterfugiō''.^(OLD 2012)

+ It has no supine.^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|subter|fugiō|t1=beneath, secretly|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==

+ Plautus has both uses:^(OLD 2012) someone says that Chrysalus has slipped away from him today, and another is told that he can dodge a few things, if not all.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The intransitive sense, to slip away secretly, is very rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transitively it means to avoid a threatened evil by skill or a trick, to dodge or evade;^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it a favourite word of Cicero, who has evading the force of charges, military service, punishment, danger, and all things as if they were fate.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of escaping the storm of the Punic war, and Suetonius of evading the claims of the treasury.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has it as to evade, shun, escape or flee secretly.^(Stelten 1995) The noun [[subterfugium]] was formed from it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of slipping away and of dodging.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of evading charges and military service.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of escaping a war.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius, of evading the treasury.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To slip away by [[m|en|stealth]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|evade]], dodge, [[m|en|shun]], avoid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subterfugium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fugiō]]

+ * [[effugiō]]

+ * [[subter]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}