fugitive

English

Etymology

From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fu‧gi‧tive

Noun

fugitive (plural fugitives)

1. A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution; or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “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—!”

Synonyms

• abscotchalater (archaic)
• nomad
• wanderer
• runaway

Derived terms

• fugitivity

Translations

a person who is fleeing or escaping from something

• Afrikaans: vlugteling
• Albanian: arratisur (sq) m
• Arabic: هَارِب m (hārib), هَارِبَة f (hāriba)
• Armenian: փախստական (hy) (pʻaxstakan)
• Aromanian: fugar m
• Azerbaijani: qaçaq, fərari (az), qaçqın (az)
• Belarusian: уцяка́ч m (ucjakáč), уцяка́чка f (ucjakáčka), бягле́ц m (bjahljéc), бягля́к m (bjahlják), бягля́чка f (bjahljáčka)
• Bulgarian: бегле́ц (bg) m (begléc)
• Catalan: fugitiu (ca) m, pròfug m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逃亡者 (zh) (táowángzhě), 逃犯 (zh) (táofàn)

• Czech: uprchlík (cs) m, uprchlice (cs) f, utečenec (cs) m, utečenka f
• Danish: flygtning (da) c
• Dutch: vluchteling (nl) m, vluchtelinge (nl) f, voortvluchtige (nl) m or f
• Egyptian: (wꜥr m)
• Estonian: põgeneja, jooksik
• Finnish: karkulainen (fi), pakolainen (fi)
• French: fugitif (fr) m, fugitive (fr) f
• Galician: fuxitivo m
• Georgian: გაქცეული (gakceuli), ლტოლვილი (lṭolvili)
• German: Flüchtling (de) m
• Greek: φυγάς (el) m (fygás), φυγάς (el) f (fygás)

  Ancient: φυγάς m or f (phugás)

• Hebrew: מבוקש, עבריין נמלט
• Hindi: भगोड़ा (hi) m (bhagoṛā), भग्गू (hi) m (bhaggū)
• Hungarian: szökevény (hu)
• Indonesian: buronan (id)
• Italian: latitante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 逃亡者 (ja) (とうぼうしゃ, tōbōsha)
• Kannada: ತಲೆತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಂಡವನು (kn) (taletappisikoṇḍavanu)
• Kazakh: қашқын (qaşqyn), қашақ (qaşaq)
• Korean: 도망자(逃亡者) (domangja)
• Kyrgyz: качкын (ky) (kackın)
• Latin: fugitīvus m
• Latvian: bēglis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: pabėgėlis m
• Macedonian: бегалец m (begalec), бегалка f (begalka)
• Maori: taurewa, rerenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rømling m

• Old English: flīema m
• Pashto: پراري m or f (parārí)
• Persian: فراری (fa) (farâri)
• Polish: uciekinier (pl) m, uciekinierka f, zbieg (pl) m
• Portuguese: fugitivo m, foragido (pt) m
• Romanian: fugar (ro) m, fugară (ro) f, evadat (ro) m, evadată f
• Russian: бегле́ц (ru) m (begléc), бегля́нка (ru) f (begljánka)
• Scottish Gaelic: fògarrach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бегу́нац m, бегуница f, бегунка f

  Roman: begúnac (sh) m, begunica (sh) f, begunka f

• Slovak: utečenec m, utečenkyňa f, utečenka f
• Slovene: ubežnik (sl) m, ubežnica f
• Southern Altai: качкын (kačkïn)
• Spanish: fugitivo (es) m, prófugo
• Swedish: flykting (sv) c
• Tagalog: pugante
• Tajik: фирорӣ (firori)
• Telugu: పలాయితుడు (te) (palāyituḍu)
• Turkish: firari (tr), kaçak (tr)
• Turkmen: gaçgak
• Ukrainian: утіка́ч m (utikáč), утіка́чка f (utikáčka), втіка́ч m (vtikáč), втіка́чка f (vtikáčka)
• Urdu: مفرور m (mafrūr)
• Uyghur: قاچقۇن (qachqun)
• Uzbek: qochqin (uz), qochoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: người lánh nạn
• Welsh: ffoadur m

Adjective

fugitive (comparative more fugitive, superlative most fugitive)

1. Fleeing or running away; escaping.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.

2. Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
3. Elusive or difficult to retain.

Translations

fleeing or running away

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: هربان (harbān)

• Armenian: փախստական (hy) (pʻaxstakan)
• Bashkir: ҡасҡын (qasqın)
• Bulgarian: бегъл (bg) (begǎl)
• Catalan: fugitiu (ca)
• Danish: flygtig
• Dutch: voortvluchtig (nl), voortvluchtige (nl)
• Finnish: karkuri (fi), karkulainen (fi)
• Galician: fuxitivo
• German: flüchtig (de)
• Italian: latitante (it) m or f
• Latin: fugitīvus
• Maori: taurewa
• Norwegian: flyktig
• Persian: گریزان (fa) (gorizân)
• Portuguese: fugitivo, foragido (pt)
• Romanian: fugitiv (ro), fugar (ro), trecător (ro)
• Russian: бе́глый (ru) (béglyj)
• Spanish: fugitivo (es)
• Turkish: firari (tr)

transient, fleeting or ephemeral

• Bulgarian: преходен (bg) (prehoden), кракотраен (krakotraen)
• Danish: flygtig
• Dutch: voorbijgaand (nl)
• Finnish: hetkellinen (fi)
• French: éphémère (fr) m or f
• German: flüchtig (de), vorübergehend (de), kurzlebig (de)
• Norwegian: diffus (no)
• Portuguese: efêmero (pt)
• Russian: мимолётный (ru) (mimoljótnyj), скороте́чный (ru) (skorotéčnyj), преходя́щий (ru) (prexodjáščij)
• Spanish: fugaz (es)
• Turkish: geçici (tr), gelip geçici (tr), kalımsız (tr)

elusive or difficult to retain

• Bulgarian: бегъл (bg) (begǎl)
• Dutch: vluchtig (nl)
• Finnish: pysymätön, saavuttamaton
• French: fuyant (fr) m
• German: flüchtig (de)
• Norwegian: diffus (no)
• Polish: ulotny (pl) m
• Portuguese: esquivo (pt)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} flüchtig (de)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} fugitivus

Related terms

• fugitive disentitlement
• fugitive dust
• fugitive from justice
• fugitive pigment

 

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.ʒi.tiv/
• Rhymes: -iv
• Homophone: fugitives

Noun

fugitive f (plural fugitives)

1. female equivalent of fugitif; a female fugitive

Further reading

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

Latin

Adjective

fugitīve

1. vocative masculine singular of fugitīvus