🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

sovraffugio

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sovraffugio

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
subterfuge/ˈsʌb.tə.fjuːdʒ/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ha ottenuto il lavoro con il sotterfugio."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

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As noun
  1. 1

    Deceit used in order to achieve one's goal.

    "He had to use subterfuge and deception to get inside the secure facility."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from French, or from late Latin subterfugium, from Latin subterfugere 'escape secretly', from subter- 'beneath' + fugere 'flee'.

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