transfuga

From Latin trānsfuga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrans.fu.ɡa/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ansfuɡa
• Hyphenation: tràn‧sfu‧ga

transfuga m or f by sense (masculine plural transfughi, feminine plural transfughe)

1. (literary) deserter, fugitive
2. (politics, figurative, by extension) one who has left a political party with which he was previously affiliated; defector, turncoat

• transfuga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From trānsfugiō (“desert”) +‎ -a (agent noun).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrãːf.fʊ.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪rans.fu.ɡa]

trānsfuga m (genitive trānsfugae); first declension

1. a deserter
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.5:

     [...] soleō enim et in aliēna castra trānsīre, nōn tamquam trānsfuga, sed tamquam explōrātor [...].

     [Seneca admits to reading Epicurus:] for I am accustomed to cross over even into the enemy’s camp, not as a deserter, but as a scout [...].

First-declension noun.

• “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.