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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Twelve Tables|origins=ine-pro *bʰewg-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfʊ.ɡi.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfuː.d͡ʒi.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''fugiō''' (present infinitive fugere, perfect active fūgī, supine fugitum); third (-iō variant) conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*fug-i-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*bʰug-i-|t=to flee]], from the root [[ine-pro|*bʰewg-]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[grc|φεύγω|tr=pheúgō|t=to flee]], aorist [[m|grc|φυγεῖν|tr=phugeîn]], and [[grc|φυγή|tr=phugḗ|t=flight, exile]], and [[ae|būjat̰|t=frees]].^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD and older dictionaries also compared [[sa|भुजति|tr=bhujati|t=bends]] and [[ang|būgan|t=to bow]], but de Vaan gives only the Greek and Iranian cognates.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan dates it from the Twelve Tables and Livius Andronicus.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates the Twelve Tables to about 450 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to run away, take flight, flee, and transitively to flee from something, as Plautus' ''fugere hostes''.^(OLD 2012) It was used of going into exile, ''patriam fugere'', of slaves who absconded and soldiers who deserted, of escaping by flight, and of shunning or avoiding something.^(OLD 2012) Of things it meant to speed away, to recede, as Virgil's fleeing Athos,.^(OLD 2012)
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+ Medieval Latin used ''fugere ā saeculō'' of leaving the world for a monastery.^(eLexicon Polonorum) Its descendants include [[fr|fuir]], [[it|fuggire]] and [[es|huir]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 450 BC – The Twelve Tables use it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of running away from the enemy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of going into exile.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To run away, take [[m|en|flight]], [[m|en|flee]], (transitive) to flee from.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To speed away, fly, (of places) to recede.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To go into [[m|en|exile]] (''patriam fugere'').^(OLD 2012)
+ # (Of slaves or troops) to abscond, [[m|en|desert]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To escape; to [[m|en|avoid]], shun.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[aufugiō]]
+ * [[cōnfugiō]]
+ * [[dēfugiō]]
+ * [[diffugiō]]
+ * [[effugiō]]
+ * [[fugāx]]
+ * [[fugēla]]
+ * [[fugitīvus]]
+ * [[fugitō]]
+ * [[fugitor]]
+ * [[interfugiō]]
+ * [[perfugiō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[fuga]]
+ * [[fugitāns]]
+ * [[fugō]]
+ * [[perfuga]]
+ * [[trānsfuga]]
+ * [[en|fugitive]]
+ * [[en|refuge]]
+ * [[en|centrifugal]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}