Dictionary formfuga, fugae(feminine)
Translation
flight, escape; exile
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Grammar
Cases
| Case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativethe subject | fuga | fugae |
| Vocativecalling someone: O ... | fuga | fugae |
| Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), per | fugam | fugas |
| Genitiveof | fugae | fugarum |
| Dativeto, for | fugae | fugis |
| Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sine | fuga | fugis |
Examples
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The flight of the enemy was reported.
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He put the enemy to flight.
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They began to prepare an escape.
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After his exile he did not return to his homeland.
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Fear was the cause of the flight.
Fuga, fugae, f. First declension, from fugio. The military idioms are fixed and worth memorising as blocks: in fugam dare or in fugam vertere is to rout an enemy, while fugam capere or fugam petere is to take to your own heels.
The third sense, exile, is Roman legal reality rather than metaphor. A citizen facing condemnation very often left the city before sentence was passed, so flight and banishment were the same event and became the same word. Note that fuga is the act, not the person: a fugitive is fugitivus. The musical fugue comes through Italian from the same root, named for the way one voice runs after another.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 1: fuga, timor, superior and 7 more words.