Adjective: fugitive
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fugitive |
| Superlative | most fugitive |
Sample Sentences
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I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers. [1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:]
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Turmeric can also dye a yellow, but it is very fugitive. [1847, editorial staff, “To Dye Yellow Color”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72:]
Adjectives inflected like fugitive
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-der.
3. Proto-Italic *fugjō
4. Latin fugiō
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
6. Proto-Italic *-tos
7. Latin -tus
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
13. Proto-Italic *-ājō
14. Proto-Italic *-āō
15. Latin -ō
16. Latin -tō
17. Latin fugitō
18. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
19. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
20. Latin -īvus
21. Latin fugitīvusder.
22. Middle English fugitive
23. English fugitive
24. From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus, from fugitō, from fugiō. See: Latin Adjectives '
fugitīvus'.