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fingo
fingo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (degdhi) and English dough.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfin.ɡoː/, [ˈfɪŋ.ɡoː]
Verb
fingō (present infinitive fingere, perfect active finxī, supine fictum); third conjugation
- I shape, fashion, form, knead (dough)
- I adorn, dress, arrange
- I dissemble; I alter the truth in order to deceive; feign; pretend
- I train, teach, instruct
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References
- fingo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fingo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fingo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to dissemble, disguise one's feelings: vultum fingere
- to be at the beck and call of another; to be his creature: totum se fingere et accommodare ad alicuius arbitrium et nutum
- to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive: animo, cogitatione aliquid fingere (or simply fingere, but without sibi), informare
- Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas, quam Plato finxit
- to introduce a person (into a dialogue) discoursing on..: aliquem disputantem facere, inducere, fingere (est aliquid apud aliquem disputans)
- to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere
- to dissemble, disguise one's feelings: vultum fingere