transfuga

See also: tránsfuga and trânsfuga

Italian

Etymology

From Latin trānsfuga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtran.sfu.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ansfuɡa
• Hyphenation: tràn‧sfu‧ga

Noun

transfuga m or f by sense (masculine plural transfughi, feminine plural transfughe)

1. (literary) deserter, fugitive
2. (politics, figurative, by extension) one who has left a political party with which he was previously affiliated; defector, turncoat

Further reading

• transfuga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From trānsfugiō (“desert”) +‎ -a (agent noun).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtrans.fu.ɡa/, [ˈt̪rä̃ːfːʊɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtrans.fu.ɡa/, [ˈt̪ränsfuɡä]

Noun

trānsfuga m (genitive trānsfugae); first declension

1. a deserter

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trānsfuga	trānsfugae
genitive	trānsfugae	trānsfugārum
dative	trānsfugae	trānsfugīs
accusative	trānsfugam	trānsfugās
ablative	trānsfugā	trānsfugīs
vocative	trānsfuga	trānsfugae

Descendants

• Catalan: trànsfuga
• French: transfuge
  • English: transfuge
• Galician: tránsfuga
• Italian: transfuga
• Portuguese: trânsfuga
• Spanish: tránsfuga

References

• “transfuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “transfuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• transfuga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.