furtive

English

Etymology

From French furtif (“stealthy”), from Latin fūrtīvus (“stolen”), from fūrtum (“theft”), from fūr (“thief”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːtɪv/
Audio (UK) (file)
(General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈfɜːɾɪv]
(US) IPA^(key): [ˈfɝ.ɾɪv]
Audio (US) (file)

Adjective

furtive (comparative more furtive, superlative most furtive)

Stealthy.
Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p31
  But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.

Synonyms

(stealthy): surreptitious
See also Thesaurus:covert

Derived terms

Translations

stealthy

Bulgarian: скрит (bg) (skrit), прикрит (bg) (prikrit)
Dutch: heimelijk (nl), steels (nl), furtief
French: furtif (fr), subreptice (fr)
German: heimlich (de), geheim (de), Tarn- (de)
Greek: λαθραίος (el) m (lathraíos), κρυφός (el) m (kryfós)
Italian: furtivo (it)
Latvian: zaglīgs

Maori: whakamokeke
Portuguese: furtivo (pt)
Russian: скры́тный (ru) (skrýtnyj)
Spanish: furtivo (es), sigiloso (es)
Tagalog: alimis
Tajik: ноаён (tg) (noayon)

exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy

Bulgarian: потаен (bg) (potaen)
Dutch: heimelijk (nl), diefachtig (nl), steels (nl), furtief

Greek: φευγαλέος (el) m (fevgaléos)
Portuguese: furtivo (pt)

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Translations to be checked

Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} furtive

Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} dizîkî, ^{(please verify)} nehînî, ^{(please verify)} razberî

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fyʁtiv/

Adjective

furtive

feminine singular of furtif

Italian

Adjective

furtive f pl

Feminine plural of adjective furtivo.

Latin

Adjective

furtive

masculine vocative singular of fūrtīvus

References

furtive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
furtive in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
furtive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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