profugus

Latin

Etymology

From prōfugiō (“I flee, run away or escape”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.fu.ɡus/, [ˈprɔfʊɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.fu.ɡus/, [ˈprɔːfuɡus]

Adjective

profugus (feminine profuga, neuter profugum); first/second-declension adjective

1. that which flees, has fled, fugitive
2. unsettled, roving, vagabond, wandering
3. banished, exiled

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	profugus	profuga	profugum		profugī	profugae	profuga
Genitive	profugī	profugae	profugī		profugōrum	profugārum	profugōrum
Dative	profugō		profugō		profugīs
Accusative	profugum	profugam	profugum		profugōs	profugās	profuga
Ablative	profugō	profugā	profugō		profugīs
Vocative	profuge	profuga	profugum		profugī	profugae	profuga

Descendants

• → Catalan: pròfug
• → Italian: profugo
• → Spanish: prófugo
• → Portuguese: prófugo

References

• “profugus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “profugus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• profugus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • homeless: domo profugus (Liv. 1. 1)