Where does “fugitive” come from?
Fugitive comes from Middle English fugitive, from Latin fugitivus, combining the root of Latin fugio meaning "to flee" with the suffix -ivus.
fugitive (English): A person who flees or escapes and travels...
Definitions
- A person who flees or escapes and travels...
Ancestry of “fugitive”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | fugitive | — |
| 2 | Latin | fugitivus | fugitive, deserter, runaway slave; fugitive |
| 3 | Latin | fugito | I flee; I eschew, shun; second-person singular... |
| 4 | Latin | -tō | Forms here |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |