transfuga

== Italian == === Etymology === From Latin trānsfuga. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtrans.fu.ɡa/ Rhymes: -ansfuɡa Hyphenation: tràn‧sfu‧ga === Noun === transfuga m or f by sense (masculine plural transfughi, feminine plural transfughe) (literary) deserter, fugitive (politics, figurative, by extension) one who has left a political party with which he was previously affiliated; defector, turncoat === References === === Further reading === transfuga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana == Latin == === Etymology === From trānsfugiō (“desert”) +‎ -a (agent noun). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtrãːf.fʊ.ɡa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtrans.fu.ɡa] === Noun === trānsfuga m (genitive trānsfugae); first declension a deserter ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “transfuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “transfuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “transfuga”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.