fugue
English
/ˈfjuːɡ/
noun
Definitions
- (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.
- Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
- A fugue state.
Etymology
Borrowed from French fugue derived from Italian fuga (flight, ardor, escape) derived from Latin fuga (flight, act of fleeing, fleeing) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (enjoy, flee, benefit, bend, curve, arch).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰewg-
Gloss
enjoy, flee, benefit, bend, curve, arch
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
曲
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cerebellofugal English
- corticifugal English
- corticofugal English
- fuga English
- fugal English
- fugally English
- fuguelike English
- fuguist English
- functor English
- fungibility English
- hepatofugal English
- phugoid English
- striatofugal English
- tectofugal English
- centrum Latin
- defunctus Latin
- defungor Latin
- dēfunctus Latin
- dēfunctus [vitā] Latin
- dēfungī Latin
- fuga Latin
- fugitīvus Latin
- fugiō Latin
- functio Latin
- functiō Latin
- fungor Latin
- fungor, fungi Latin
- fungī Latin
- perfunctōrius Latin
- perfungor Latin
- refugium Latin
- subterfugiō Latin
- Fuge German
- fúga Hungarian
- controfuga Italian
- foga Italian
- fuga Italian
- fugue French
- réfugié French
- fuga Spanish, Castilian
- φεύγω Ancient Greek
- φυγή Ancient Greek
- φύζα Ancient Greek
- *bʰewg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰu-né-g-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰugéh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- fuga Portuguese
- *bankiz Proto-Germanic
- भोग Sanskrit
- भोग्य Sanskrit
- भोजन Sanskrit
- fuga Catalan, Valencian
- fugă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- բուծանեմ Old Armenian
- fugã Aromanian
- *fugiō Proto-Italic
- fuga Asturian
- *pʰéugō Proto-Hellenic