profugus

profugus

Latin

Etymology

    From profugiō (“to flee, run away or escape”) + -us.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    profugus (feminine profuga, neuter profugum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. that which flees, has fled, fugitive
    2. unsettled, roving, vagabond, wandering
    3. banished, exiled

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative profugus profuga profugum profugī profugae profuga
    genitive profugī profugae profugī profugōrum profugārum profugōrum
    dative profugō profugae profugō profugīs
    accusative profugum profugam profugum profugōs profugās profuga
    ablative profugō profugā profugō profugīs
    vocative profuge profuga profugum profugī profugae profuga

    Descendants

    • → Catalan: pròfug
    • → Italian: profugo
    • → Spanish: prófugo
    • → Portuguese: prófugo

    References

    • “profugus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “profugus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “profugus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • homeless: domo profugus (Liv. 1. 1)
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