aufugio Latin · revision 34205

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la fugiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|fugiō|t2=to flee]], with the prefix in the form ⟨au-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|fugiō]], from Plautus on, and traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*fug-i-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰug-i-|t=to flee]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has ''aufugero hercle, si magis usus venerit'', “I'll run away, by Hercules, if the need arises”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main sense is to run away, flee.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus uses it also of things that disappear, as water that is said to have run off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transitively it means to flee from, shun: in Cicero's ''Aratea'' Andromeda flees the sight of her parent, and Propertius has it with ''blanditias''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short call it very rare but classical: Catullus, Tibullus, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Sallust do not use it, Cicero has it twice in the speeches, and Tacitus once.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of a pirate chief who might escape, and of someone who ran off after stealing many books.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catulus, quoted by Gellius, has ''aufugit mihi animus'', “my soul has fled from me”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to flee.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of running away and of water vanishing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it transitively of fleeing a sight.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of fleeing from a place.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To run away, [[m|en|flee]], [[m|en|escape]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of things, to [[m|en|vanish]], disappear.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # (transitive) To flee from, [[m|en|shun]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnfugiō]]

+ * [[dēfugiō]]

+ * [[diffugiō]]

+ * [[effugiō]]

+ * [[fugiō]]

+ * [[interfugiō]]

+ * [[perfugiō]]

+ * [[praefugiō]]

+ * [[praeterfugiō]]

+ * [[profugiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}