Verb
fingō (present infinitive fingere, perfect active fīnxī, supine fictum); third conjugation
- to shape, fashion, form, knead (dough)
- Synonyms: fōrmō, effingō
- to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 8.634:
- mulcēre alternōs, et corpora fingere linguā
- to caress them in turn, and to gently stroke their bodies with her tongue
(The she-wolf nurtures the twins Romulus and Remus.)
- to adorn, dress, arrange
- to dissemble; to alter the truth in order to deceive; feign, pretend, frame, contrive, devise, invent, fancy, imagine
- Synonyms: simulō, mentior, ēmentior, affectō, dissimulō, praetendō
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.337–338:
- “[...] Neque ego hanc abscondere fūrtō
spērāvī — nē finge — fugam [...].”- “I had never hoped to hide this departure by [some] deceit: Don’t pretend (that I did).”
(Use of “ne” plus the imperative “finge” to express a negative command.)
- to train, teach, instruct
- Synonyms: doceō, ēdoceō, discō, ēdūcō, ērudiō, īnstruō, magistrō, imbuō
Conjugation
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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
- fingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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