transfuga

See also: tránsfuga and trânsfuga

Italian

Etymology

From Latin trānsfuga.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtran.sfu.ɡa/[1]
  • 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

References
  1. transfuga in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

trānsfuga m (genitive trānsfugae); first declension

  1. a deserter

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trānsfuga trānsfugae
Genitive trānsfugae trānsfugārum
Dative trānsfugae trānsfugīs
Accusative trānsfugam trānsfugās
Ablative trānsfugā trānsfugīs
Vocative trānsfuga trānsfugae

Descendants

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.
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