fugue

Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugere (“to flee”); compare Ancient Greek φυγή (phugḗ). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːɡ/

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• Rhymes: -uːɡ

fugue (plural fugues)

1. (music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
2. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
3. A fugue state.

• fuguist

• fugue state

fugue (third-person singular simple present fugues, present participle fuguing, simple past and past participle fugued)

1. To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.

• Wikipedia article on fugues

• IPA^(key): /fyɡ/
• Homophones: fuguent, fugues

Non-lemma forms.

fugue

1. first-person singular present indicative of fuguer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fuguer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fuguer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of fuguer
5. second-person singular imperative of fuguer

Borrowed from Latin fuga. Doublet of fougue.

fugue f (plural fugues)

1. (informal) running away (from a place where one was staying)
2. (music) fugue

• (running away): fuite : flight, fleeing

• fuguer

• fuir

• “fugue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

fugue

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fugar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fugar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fugar.