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fugitive
English
Etymology
From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugit?vus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fju?d???t?v/
- Hyphenation: fu?gi?tive
Noun
fugitive (plural fugitives)
- 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.
- “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
Translations
Adjective
fugitive (comparative more fugitive, superlative most fugitive)
- Fleeing or running away; escaping.
- Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
- Elusive or difficult to retain.
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fy.?i.tiv/
- Rhymes: -iv
- Homophone: fugitives
Noun
fugitive f (plural fugitives, masculine fugitif)
- female equivalent of fugitif; a female fugitive
Further reading
- “fugitive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Adjective
fugit?ve
- vocative masculine singular of fugit?vus
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felon
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?l'?n, IPA(key): /?f?l?n/
- Rhymes: -?l?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English felun, feloun, from Anglo-Norman felun (“traitor, wretch”), from Medieval Latin fell?, from Frankish *fell? (“wicked person”), from Proto-Germanic *fillô, *filjô (“flayer, whipper, scoundrel”), from Proto-Germanic *faluz (“cruel, evil”) (compare English fell (“fierce”), Middle High German v?lant (“imp”)), related to *fellan? (compare Dutch villen, German fillen (“to whip, beat”), both from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to stir, move, swing”) (compare Old Irish ad·ella (“to seek”), di·ella (“to yield”), Umbrian pelsatu (“to overcome, conquer”), Latin pell? (“to drive, beat”), Latvian lijuôs, pl?tiês (“to force, impose”), Ancient Greek ????? (pélas, “near”), ???????? (pílnamai, “I approach”), Old Armenian ??????? (halacem, “I pursue”).
Noun
felon (plural felons)
- A person who has committed a felony.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, James Nisbet & Company (1902), Book 3, Chapter 6, page 340:
- Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, James Nisbet & Company (1902), Book 3, Chapter 6, page 340:
- (law) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
- A wicked person.
Synonyms
- (one who has committed a felony): criminal; convict; malefactor; culprit
Related terms
- felonious
- felonize
- felony
Translations
Adjective
felon
- wicked; cruel
Etymology 2
Probably from Latin fel (“gall, poison”).
Noun
felon (plural felons)
- (medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.
See also
- whitlow
References
- felon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- felon at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- flone
Esperanto
Noun
felon
- accusative singular of felo
Old French
Alternative forms
- felun, feloun, felloun
Etymology
From Medieval Latin fell?, from Frankish *fell? (“evildoer”).
Noun
felon m (oblique plural felons, nominative singular felons, nominative plural felon)
- evildoer; wrongdoer
- immoral person
Declension
Adjective
felon m (oblique and nominative feminine singular felone)
- bastard; idiot (a general pejorative)
- evil; bad; immoral
Declension
Related terms
- felonie
Descendants
- Middle French: felon
- French: félon
- Norman: fflon
- Picard: fèlôn
- ? Middle Dutch: fel, felle (reborrowing)
- ? Middle English: felun, feloun
- Scots: felloun
- English: felon
- ? Scots: felon, fellin
- ? Galician: felón
- ? Spanish: felón
References
Romanian
Etymology
From Old Church Slavonic ?????? (felon?), from Ancient Greek ???????? (phelónion).
Noun
felon n (plural feloane)
- cape worn by the priest over the liturgical garments
Declension
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