fictus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of fingō (dissemble, deceive).

Participle

fictus (feminine ficta, neuter fictum); first/second-declension participle

  1. feigned, fictitious, false, counterfeit, having been feigned.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fictus ficta fictum fictī fictae ficta
Genitive fictī fictae fictī fictōrum fictārum fictōrum
Dative fictō fictō fictīs
Accusative fictum fictam fictum fictōs fictās ficta
Ablative fictō fictā fictō fictīs
Vocative ficte ficta fictum fictī fictae ficta

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: feint, fictive
  • French: feint, fictif
  • Friulian: fent, fint
  • Italian: finto

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References

  • fictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fictus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • creatures of the imagination: res cogitatione fictae or depictae
    • (ambiguous) a feigned expression: vultus ficti simulatique