fugue

fugue

See also: fugué

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugiō (“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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːɡ/

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• Rhymes: -uːɡ

Noun

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.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:

     Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.

3. A fugue state.

Derived terms

• fuguist

Related terms

• fugacious
• fugue state

Translations

piece of music

Arabic: فُوغَا‎ f (fūḡā), فُوغَا‎ f (fūgā) Armenian: ֆուգա (hy) (fuga) Azerbaijani: fuqa Belarusian: фуга f (fuha) Bulgarian: фуга f (fuga) Catalan: fuga (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 賦格／赋格 (zh) (fùgé) Czech: fuga (cs) f Danish: fuga c Dutch: fuga (nl) m or f Esperanto: fugo Estonian: fuuga Finnish: fuuga (fi) French: fugue (fr) f Friulian: fughe f Georgian: ფუგა (puga) German: Fuge (de) f Greek: φούγκα (el) f (foúgka), φυγή (el) f (fygí) Hebrew: פוּגָה‎ (he) Hungarian: fúga (hu) Icelandic: fúga f Ido: fugo (io) Italian: fuga (it) f Japanese: 遁走曲 (とんそうきょく, tonsōkyoku), フーガ (fūga) Korean: 푸가 (puga) Latin: contrāpunctus m Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: fuga Occitan: please add this translation if you can Persian: فوگ‎ Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: fuga (pt) f Romanian: fugă (ro) f Russian: фу́га (ru) f (fúga) Slovak: fúga Slovene: fuga f Spanish: fuga (es) f Swedish: fuga (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: füg (tr) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: tẩu pháp Walloon: please add this translation if you can

anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity

German: Fuge (de) f Greek: φυγή (el) f (fygí) Russian: фу́га (ru) f (fúga) Slovene: fuga f

Verb

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.

See also

• Wikipedia article on fugues

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fyɡ/[1]

Noun

fugue f (plural fugues, diminutive fugueje n)

1. (medicine) a fugue state

See also

• dissociatieve fugue

References

1. fugue in Woordpost, Onze Taal, 2012 (in Dutch).

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French

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inflected forms of fuguer.

Verb

fugue

1. inflection of fuguer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin fuga. Doublet of fougue.

Noun

fugue f (plural fugues)

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

Synonyms

• (running away): fuite : flight, fleeing

Derived terms

• fuguer

Related terms

• fuir

Descendants

• → English: fugue

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Verb

fugue

1. inflection of fugar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative