fugiens

fugiens

Latin

Etymology

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

Participle

fugiēns (genitive fugientis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. fleeing
2. speeding, hastening, passing quickly

Declension

Third-declension participle.

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