Talk:figura
Latin etymology[edit]
At Latin Etymology etymology is declared as incomplete or missing.
I don't have source at the moment, but basis is probably fingo, figi, fictum (to shape, to concieve, to express...), through future ficturus esse (shall/will, also need, to be concieved, created or expressed) possible to/through figurus (also meaning needed to be expressed)figuro (which has a form like being derived from future participle). Related: e.g. configure, configuration (software etc.) - shape something by stating parameters
My once thorough latin training leads me this verb is like a lot of others that borrowed some tenses from similar verb with apropriately similar meaning, like shall/will in English. Another e.g.: Cresco, wich has prefect tenses are crevi, creveram and crevero without sc, and has no passive, and behaves much like itself being passive of creo
It goes by the same system as nascor nascere nasci natus sum (where sc also disappears at past tenses as at cresco) and naturus sum, from where it comes the difference between natura sunt vel factura sunt (need to be born or need to be made, eg. natural or artificial, both current terms clearly evolved from there).
But I found no sources yet, and shall probably not be able to commit necessary time to do it, so that's OR and shall probably stay so. Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 17:42, 19 November 2023 (UTC)