fugiens

Latin

Etymology

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

Participle

fugiēns (genitive fugientis); third-declension participle (i-stem or non-i-stem)

1. fleeing
2. speeding, hastening, passing quickly

Declension

Third-declension participle (i-stem or non-i-stem).

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	fugiēns			fugientēs	fugientia fugienta
genitive	fugientis			fugientium fugientum
dative	fugientī			fugientibus
accusative	fugientem	fugiēns		fugientēs fugientīs	fugientia fugienta
ablative	fugiente fugientī1			fugientibus
vocative	fugiēns			fugientēs	fugientia fugienta

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^[1], 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