# φεύγω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* φυγγάνω (phungánō) — Aeolic

### Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pʰéugō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to flee”). Related to φυγή (phugḗ, verbal noun) and Latin fugiō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰěu̯.ɡɔː/ → /ˈɸeβ.ɣo/ → /ˈfev.ɣo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pʰěu̯.ɡɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈpʰew.ɡo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈɸeβ.ɣo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈfev.ɣo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈfev.ɣo/

### Verb

φεύγω • (pheúgō)
* (intransitive) to flee, run off, go a certain direction with haste (often with prepositions)
* (transitive) to flee, escape, avoid, get away from (danger or trouble)
* (transitive or intransitive) to leave the country, go into exile
** (intransitive) to be exiled, banished, driven out of the country [with ὑπό (hupó, + genitive) ‘by someone’]
** (intransitive, present and imperfect) to be in exile, live in banishment
* (perfect) to have escaped, be safe from
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.11–12:ἔνθ’ ἄλλοι μὲν πάντες, ὅσοι φύγον αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον οἴκοι ἔσαν, πόλεμόν τε πεφευγότες ἠδὲ θάλασσαν·énth’ álloi mèn pántes, hósoi phúgon aipùn ólethron oíkoi ésan, pólemón te pepheugótes ēdè thálassan;At that time, all the others that had fled sheer destruction were at home, having escaped war and the sea.
* (law, chiefly present and imperfect) to be accused of a crime; often with δίκην (díkēn) and genitive of the crime

#### Usage notes

The present and imperfect often have a conative reading: to try to get away, intend to leave.

#### Inflection

Future active only appears in Koine Greek, in the form ἐκφεύξω (ekpheúxō).

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “to flee, be accused”): διώκω (diṓkō, “to pursue, accuse”)

#### Derived terms

* with prepositional prefixes
** ἀναφεύγω (anapheúgō)
** ἀποφεύγω (apopheúgō)
** διαφεύγω (diapheúgō)
** διεκφεύγω (diekpheúgō)
** ἐκφεύγω (ekpheúgō)
** καταφεύγω (katapheúgō)
** περιφεύγω (peripheúgō)
** προφεύγω (propheúgō)
** προκαταφεύγω (prokatapheúgō)
** προσφεύγω (prospheúgō)
** συμφεύγω (sumpheúgō)
** ὑπεκφεύγω (hupekpheúgō)
** ὑπεκπροφεύγω (hupekpropheúgō)
** ὑποφεύγω (hupopheúgō)
* suffixed
** φευκτέος (pheuktéos)
** φευκτός (pheuktós)
** φύγαδε (phúgade)
** φύγδην (phúgdēn)
** φυγή (phugḗ)
*** ἀναφυγή (anaphugḗ)
*** ἀποφυγή (apophugḗ)
*** διαφυγή (diaphugḗ)
*** ἐκφυγή (ekphugḗ)
*** καταφυγή (kataphugḗ)
** φυκτός (phuktós)
*** ἄφυκτος (áphuktos)

#### Related terms

* ἀειφυγίᾱ (aeiphugíā)
* φυγαδεύω (phugadeúō)
* φυγάς (phugás)
* φυγομαχέω (phugomakhéō)
* φύζᾰ (phúză)

#### Descendants

* Mariupol Greek: фегну (fjehnu)

### References

* “φεύγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “φεύγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “φεύγω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* φεύγω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* φεύγω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “φεύγω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G5343 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek φεύγω (pheúgō, “flee”) (the sense "leave" since mediaeval times. From Proto-Hellenic *pʰéugō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-. Has been displaced by δραπετεύω (drapetévo) in the Ancient Greek sense of "to flee".

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfe.vɣo/
* Hyphenation: φεύ‧γω

### Verb

φεύγω • (févgo) (past έφυγα, passive —)
* (intransitive) to leave, depart, go
    πότε φεύγει;póte févgei;when does it leave?
* (transitive) to leave from, depart from [with από]
    Το πλοίο φεύγει από τον Πειραιά.To ploío févgei apó ton Peiraiá.The boat leaves from Piraeus.

#### Synonyms

* αναχωρώ (anachoró)

#### Antonyms

* έρχομαι (érchomai)
* φτάνω (ftáno)

#### Derived terms

* όπου φύγει φύγει (ópou fýgei fýgei)

#### Related terms

* αποφεύγω (apofévgo, “avoid”)
* διαφεύγω (diafévgo, “escape, elude”)
* εκφεύγω (ekfévgo)
* καταφεύγω (katafévgo, “take refuge”)
* ξαναφεύγω (xanafévgo, “depart again”)
* ξεφεύγω (xefévgo)
* προσφεύγω (prosfévgo)
* υπεκφεύγω (ypekfévgo)
* φοροαποφεύγω (foroapofévgo)
* φοροδιαφεύγω (forodiafévgo)
* αναπόφευκτος (anapófefktos, “unavoidable”)
* αφεύγατος (afévgatos, “unavoidable”) (literary)
* άφευκτος (áfefktos)
* καταφύγιο n (katafýgio, “shelter”) and see καταφεύγω (katafévgo)
* κεντρόφυγος (kentrófygos)
* κρησφύγετο n (krisfýgeto)
* πρόσφυγας m (prósfygas, “refugee”) and see προσφεύγω (prosfévgo)
* φεύγα n (févga, “a backgammon game”)
* φευγάλα f (fevgála)
* φευγαλέος (fevgaléos)
* φευγατίζω (fevgatízo)
* φευγάτος (fevgátos, “gone; ready to go; inattentive”)
* φευγιό n (fevgió)
* φοροφυγάς m (forofygás)
* φυγάδευση f (fygádefsi)
* φυγαδεύω (fygadévo)
* φυγάς m (fygás, “fugitive”)
* φυγή f (fygí, “escape, flight”) & compounds
* φυγο- (fygo-) (compounds)

#### See also

* αφήνω (afíno, “to leave, let go, abandon”)
* βγαίνω (vgaíno, “to go out, come out”)

### Further reading

* φεύγω, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language