refugus Latin · revision 36945

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=la fugiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrɛ.fʊ.ɡʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɛː.fu.ɡus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''refugus''' (feminine refuga, neuter refugum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|refugiō|-us|t1=to flee back]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) and that verb is a compound of [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|fugiō|t=to flee]].^(OLD 2012) The simple verb goes back to [[ine-pro|*bʰug-i-|t=to flee]] and is cognate with [[grc|φεύγω|tr=pheúgō|t=to flee]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the TLL date it from Ovid,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) who writes that Tantalus stopped snatching at the receding water (''nec Tantalus undam captāvit refugam'').^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL finds it mostly in poets,^(TLL) and Lewis and Short note that it is poetic and post-Augustan, absent from Virgil and Horace.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucan uses it of the Parthians fleeing back, of the Ocean withdrawing at the ebb and of hair swept back from the forehead,^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Statius of the receding sea,^(TLL) and Ausonius of oysters left bare by the shallows.^(TLL) Tacitus has it of cavalry that fell back on purpose, and as a noun for fugitives.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Ambrose uses it with a genitive, of someone who shuns fasting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Medieval British writers used it of people who flee, also figuratively, and William of Malmesbury of receding hair.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of the water that eludes Tantalus.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of the receding sea.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of retreating cavalry and, as a noun, of fugitives.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 310–394 AD – Ausonius uses it of shallows left by the tide.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 340–397 AD – Ambrose uses it with a genitive, of shunning a fast.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|flee|alt=Fleeing]] back, fleeing away.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Receding, drawing back (of water, the tide, hair).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Late Latin, with a genitive)'' [[m|en|shun|alt=Shunning]], avoiding.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|fugitive]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[refuga]]

+ * [[refugiō]]

+ * [[fugiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}