fugiens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of fugiō (“flee; hasten”).

Participle

fugiēns m, f, n (genitive fugientis); third declension

  1. fleeing
  2. speeding, hastening, passing quickly

Inflection

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative fugiēns fugiēns fugientēs fugientia
Genitive fugientis fugientis fugientium fugientium
Dative fugientī fugientī fugientibus fugientibus
Accusative fugientem fugiēns fugientēs, fugientīs fugientia
Ablative fugiente, fugientī1 fugiente, fugientī1 fugientibus fugientibus
Vocative fugiēns fugiēns fugientēs fugientia

1When used purely as an adjective.

References
  • fugiens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fugiens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fugiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • lazy: fugiens laboris
    • to press the fugitives: fugientibus instare
    • to cut off some one's flight: excipere aliquem fugientem
    • there was great slaughter of fugitives: magna caedes hostium fugientium facta est
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