fugitive

English

Etymology

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From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv/
• Hyphenation: fu‧gi‧tive

Noun

fugitive (plural fugitives)

1. A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution; or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
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     “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”

Synonyms

• abscotchalater (archaic)
• nomad
• wanderer
• runaway

Translations

a person who is fleeing or escaping from something

• Afrikaans: vlugteling
• Albanian: arratisur (sq) (i/e)
• Arabic: هارب
• Armenian: փախստական (hy) (pʻaxstakan)
• Aromanian: fugar m
• Bulgarian: беглец (bg) m (beglec)
• Catalan: fugitiu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逃亡者 (zh) (táowángzhě)

• Czech: uprchlík (cs)
• Danish: flygtning (da) c
• Dutch: vluchteling (nl) m, vluchtelinge (nl) f, voortvluchtige (nl) m or f
• Finnish: karkulainen (fi), pakolainen (fi)
• French: fugitif (fr) m, fugitive (fr) f
• Galician: fuxitivo m
• German: Flüchtling (de) m
• Greek: φυγάς (el) m (fygás), φυγάς (el) f (fygás)

  Ancient: φυγάς m (phugás)

• Hebrew: מבוקש, עבריין נמלט
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• Indonesian: buronan (id)
• Italian: latitante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 逃亡者 (とうぼうしゃ, tōbōsha)
• Kannada: ತಲೆತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಂಡವನು (kn) (taletappisikoṇḍavanu)
• Korean: 도망자 (domangja)
• Latin: fugitīvus m
• Maori: taurewa, rerenga
• Norwegian: rømling m
• Old English: flīema m
• Polish: uciekinier (pl) m, zbieg (pl) m
• Portuguese: fugitivo m, foragido (pt) m
• Romanian: fugar (ro), evadat (ro), trecător (ro) m
• Russian: бегле́ц (ru) m (begléc), бегля́нка (ru) f (begljánka)
• Scottish Gaelic: fògarrach m
• Serbo-Croatian: begunac (sh) m, begunica (sh) f, begunka f
• Southern Altai: качкын (kaçkın)
• Spanish: fugitivo m, prófugo
• Tagalog: pugante
• Telugu: పలాయితుడు (te) (palāyituḍu)
• Welsh: ffoadur m

Adjective

fugitive (comparative more fugitive, superlative most fugitive)

1. fleeing or running away
2. transient, fleeting or ephemeral
3. elusive or difficult to retain

Translations

fleeing or running away

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: هربان (harbān)

• Armenian: փախստական (hy) (pʻaxstakan)
• Bashkir: ҡасҡын (qasqın)
• Bulgarian: бегъл (bg) (begǎl)
• Catalan: fugitiu (ca)
• Danish: flygtig
• Dutch: voortvluchtig (nl), voortvluchtige (nl)
• Finnish: karkuri (fi), karkulainen (fi)
• Galician: fuxitivo
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• German: flüchtig (de)
• Italian: latitante (it) m or f
• Latin: fugitīvus
• Maori: taurewa
• Norwegian: flyktig
• Portuguese: fugitivo, foragido (pt)
• Romanian: fugitiv (ro), fugar (ro), trecător (ro)
• Russian: бе́глый (ru) (béglyj)
• Spanish: fugitivo

transient, fleeting or ephemeral

• Bulgarian: преходен (bg) (prehoden), кракотраен (krakotraen)
• Danish: flygtig
• Dutch: voorbijgaand (nl)
• Finnish: hetkellinen
• French: éphémère (fr) m or f
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• German: flüchtig (de), vorübergehend (de), kurzlebig (de)
• Norwegian: diffus (no)
• Portuguese: efêmero (pt)
• Spanish: fugaz (es)

elusive or difficult to retain

• Bulgarian: бегъл (bg) (begǎl)
• Dutch: vluchtig (nl)
• Finnish: pysymätön, saavuttamaton
• French: fuyant (fr) m
• German: flüchtig (de)
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• Norwegian: diffus (no)
• Polish: ulotny (pl) m
• Portuguese: esquivo (pt)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} flüchtig (de)
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• Latin: ^{(please verify)} fugitivus

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.ʒi.tiv/
• Rhymes: -iv
• Homophone: fugitives

Noun

fugitive f (plural fugitives, masculine fugitif)

1. (deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of fugitif; a female fugitive

Further reading

• “fugitive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) fugitīve

1. vocative masculine singular of fugitīvus