effingo
Italian
Verb
effingo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ex- (“out of”) + fingō (“shape, fashion, form”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /efˈfin.ɡoː/, [ɛfˈfɪŋɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /efˈfin.ɡo/, [efˈfiŋɡo]
Verb
effingō (present infinitive effingere, perfect active effīnxī, supine effictum); third conjugation
- (transitive) I form, fashion.
- (transitive) I represent, portray, express, depict; imitate, copy.
- (transitive) I wipe out, wipe clean.
- (transitive) I rub gently, stroke.
Conjugation
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Related terms
Descendants
- Italian: effingere
References
- “effingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “effingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- effingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.