fugue
See also: fugué
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
- 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.
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[edit]piece of music
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anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity
Verb
[edit]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.
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Dutch
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Noun
[edit]fugue f (plural fugues, diminutive fugueje n)
- (medicine) a fugue state
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /fyɡ/
- Homophones: fuguent, fugues
Etymology 1
[edit]Inflected forms of fuguer.
Verb
[edit]fugue
- inflection of fuguer:
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Latin fuga. Doublet of fougue.
Noun
[edit]fugue f (plural fugues)
- (informal) running away (from a place where one was staying)
- Synonym: fuite
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “fugue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]fugue
- inflection of fugar:
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