different between fugue vs fugacious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugi? (“to flee”); compare Ancient Greek ???? (phug?). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju??/
• Rhymes: -u??

Noun

fugue (plural fugues)

1. (music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
2. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
3. A fugue state.

Derived terms

• fuguist

Related terms

• fugue state

Translations

Verb

fugue (third-person singular simple present fugues, present participle fuguing, simple past and past participle fugued)

1. To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.

See also

• Wikipedia article on fugues

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy?/
• Homophones: fuguent, fugues

Etymology 1

Inflected forms of fuguer.

Verb

fugue

1. first-person singular present indicative of fuguer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fuguer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fuguer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fuguer
5. second-person singular imperative of fuguer

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin fuga. Doublet of fougue.

Noun

fugue f (plural fugues)

1. (informal) running away (from a place where one was staying)
2. (music) fugue

Synonyms

• (running away): fuite : flight, fleeing

Derived terms

• fuguer

Related terms

• fuir

Further reading

• “fugue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Verb

fugue

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fugar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fugar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fugar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fug?cius, comparative of fug?citer (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fug?x (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugi? (“I flee”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /fju???e?.??s/

Adjective

fugacious (comparative more fugacious, superlative most fugacious)

1. Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
   • 1906, O. Henry, "The Furnished Room", in The Four Million:

     Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.

   • 2011, Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography, Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ?ISBN, page xvii:

     It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.

Derived terms

• fugaciously
• fugaciousness

Related terms

• fugacity
• fugue
• fugitive

Translations