Noun: fugitive
| Singular | fugitive |
| Plural | fugitives |
Sample Sentences
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“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!” [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like fugitive
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-der.
3. Proto-Italic *fugjō
4. Latin fugiō
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
6. Proto-Italic *-tos
7. Latin -tus
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
13. Proto-Italic *-ājō
14. Proto-Italic *-āō
15. Latin -ō
16. Latin -tō
17. Latin fugitō
18. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
19. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
20. Latin -īvus
21. Latin fugitīvusder.
22. Middle English fugitive
23. English fugitive
24. From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus, from fugitō, from fugiō. See: Middle English Nouns '
fugitive', Latin Nouns '
fugitīvus'.