English
fugient
Fugient comes from Latin fugientem, and goes back to fugo ‘flee’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfugo‘flee’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfugientempresent participle of fugo
- Englishearliest quotation 1902fugient
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfugo‘flee’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfugientempresent participle of fugo
- Englishearliest quotation 1902fugient
Earliest quotation: 1902, William James, Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness: “Thus, alongside of the church militant with its prisons,…”
Every English word from Latin fugo
Today it means
adj Fleeing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fugo / fugient