φεύγω

• φυγγάνω (phungánō) — Aeolic

From Proto-Hellenic *pʰéugō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to flee”).^[1] Related to φυγή (phugḗ, verbal noun) and Latin fugiō.

φεύγω • (pheúgō)

1. (intransitive) to flee, run off, go a certain direction with haste (often with prepositions)
2. (transitive) to flee, escape, avoid, get away from (danger or trouble)
3. (transitive or intransitive) to leave the country, go into exile
   1. (intransitive) to be exiled, banished, driven out of the country [with ὑπό (hupó, + genitive) ‘by someone’]
   2. (intransitive, present and imperfect) to be in exile, live in banishment
4. (perfect) to have escaped, be safe from
   • c. 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.

5. (law, chiefly present and imperfect) to be accused of a crime; often with δίκην (díkēn) and genitive of the crime

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

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

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

• Mariupol Greek: фегну (fjehnu)

• “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
• φεύγω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

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".

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe.vɣo/
• Hyphenation: φεύ‧γω

φεύγω • (févgo) (past έφυγα, passive —)

1. (intransitive) to leave, depart, go

   πότε φεύγει; ― póte févgei; ― when does it leave?

2. (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.

• αναχωρώ (anachoró)

• έρχομαι (érchomai)
• φτάνω (ftáno)

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

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