transfuge

From French transfuge.

transfuge (plural transfuges)

1. (dated) A deserter.
2. (dated) A turncoat.

Learned borrowing from Latin trānsfuga (“deserter”).

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.fyʒ/

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transfuge m or f by sense (plural transfuges)

1. deserter, defector, turncoat

   Synonym: déserteur

2. (figurative) defector

   transfuge de classe ― class defector

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

trānsfuge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trānsfugiō