# fugue
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfjuːɡ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːɡ

### Noun

fugue (plural fugues)
* (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.
    Synonym: fuga (dated)
* Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
** 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.
* (psychiatry) A fugue state.

#### Derived terms

* counterfugue
* double fugue
* fugal
* fuguelike
* fuguist
* mirror fugue

#### Related terms

* fugacious
* fugue state

#### Translations
### Verb

fugue (third-person singular simple present fugues, present participle fuguing, simple past and past participle fugued)
* To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
* (intransitive) To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.
** 2014, Richard D. Dalrymple, Fugue, page 33:And most of them women, and these only stayed in a fugue state for a relatively short time, like a couple of hours or a couple of days. As far as we know Malenov fugued for close to twenty years.
** 2021, Robin Wasserman, Mother Daughter Widow Wife, page 87:Fugue states can have phases—it's possible she fugued from the start, and only woke to what was happening on that bus.

### See also

* fugue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

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* IPA: /fyk/

### Noun

fugue f (plural fugues, diminutive fugueje n)
* (medicine) a fugue state

#### See also

* dissociatieve fugue

### References

* ↑ fugue in Woordpost, Onze Taal, 2012 (in Dutch).

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fyɡ/
* Homophones: fuguent, fugues

### Etymology 1

Ca. 1600, borrowed in the musical sense from Italian fuga, itself a borrowing from Latin fuga. Doublet of fougue (from the inherited Italian cognate). The sense “flight” (18th c.) may be a new borrowing from the Italian.

#### Noun

fugue f (plural fugues)
* (music) fugue
* (informal) flight, act of running away, especially from home, elopement
    Synonym: fuite

##### Derived terms

* fuguer
* fuguiste

##### Related terms

* fuir

##### Descendants

* → English: fugue
* → Persian: فوگ (fug)
* → Turkish: füg

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fugue
* inflection of fuguer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “fugue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Spanish
### Verb

fugue
* inflection of fugar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative