fugela

Latin

Etymology

From fugiō (“flee, hasten”) +‎ -ēla.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fuˈɡeː.la/, [fʊˈɡeːɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fuˈd͡ʒe.la/, [fuˈd͡ʒɛːlä]

Noun

fugēla f (genitive fugēlae); first declension

1. (Old Latin, Late Latin) Alternative form of fuga
   • AD 6th C., Priscian (author), Heinrich Keil (editor), Institutiones Grammaticae (1855), page 88:

     Catō […] in Thermum: sed ā benefactīs, ab optimīs artibus fugit maximā fugēlā perpetuissimō curriculō.

     Cato […] against Thermus: but from benefactions, from the best skills, he runs with the greatest flight in the most continuous running.

   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Apologia 98.6:

     Cum ā nōbīs rēgerētur, ad magistrōs ītābat; ab iīs nunc magnā fugēlā in gāneum fugit, amīcōs seriōs aspernātur, cum adulēscentulīs postrēmissimīs inter scorta et pōcula puer hoc aevī convīvium agitat.

     When he was controlled by us, he went to teachers; now he runs away from them and into the eating-house with great flight, scorns his studious friends, parties with the most depraved youths between prostitutes and cups.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fugēla	fugēlae
Genitive	fugēlae	fugēlārum
Dative	fugēlae	fugēlīs
Accusative	fugēlam	fugēlās
Ablative	fugēlā	fugēlīs
Vocative	fugēla	fugēlae

References

• “fugela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fugela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.