fugitivus

Latin

Etymology

From fugitō (to flee) +‎ -īvus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fugitīvus m (genitive fugitīvī); second declension

  1. fugitive, deserter, runaway slave
    • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles IX.9–11:
      Quid quaeris? Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
      Quae vos ad caelum fertis rumore secundo,
      Utque sacerdotis fugitivus liba recuso,
      Pane egeo iam mellitis potiore placentis.
      What do you want from me? I live, I am my own master, I left behind the self same things you by common approval so eagerly covet, like the fugitive I have no right to the priest's blessed cake, but bread will quench my hunger over any honeyed delicacy.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fugitīvus fugitīvī
genitive fugitīvī fugitīvōrum
dative fugitīvō fugitīvīs
accusative fugitīvum fugitīvōs
ablative fugitīvō fugitīvīs
vocative fugitīve fugitīvī

Adjective

fugitīvus (feminine fugitīva, neuter fugitīvum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. fugitive

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

  • Catalan: fugitiu
  • English: fugitive
  • French: fugitif
  • Galician: fuxitivo
  • Italian: fuggitivo
  • Old French: fuitif
  • Portuguese: fugitivo
  • Romanian: fugitiv
  • Spanish: fugitivo

References

  • fugitivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fugitivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "fugitivus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fugitivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • fugitivus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fugitivus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin