fingo

Italian

Verb

fingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fingere

Anagrams

• gonfi

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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

1. I shape, fashion, form, knead (dough)
2. I adorn, dress, arrange
3. I dissemble; I alter the truth in order to deceive; feign; pretend
4. I train, teach, instruct

Conjugation

Conjugation of fingo (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fingō	fingis	fingit	fingimus	fingitis	fingunt
	imperfect	fingēbam	fingēbās	fingēbat	fingēbāmus	fingēbātis	fingēbant
	future	fingam	fingēs	finget	fingēmus	fingētis	fingent
	perfect	finxī	finxistī	finxit	finximus	finxistis	finxērunt, finxēre
	pluperfect	finxeram	finxerās	finxerat	finxerāmus	finxerātis	finxerant
	future perfect	finxerō	finxeris	finxerit	finxerimus	finxeritis	finxerint
passive	present	fingor	fingeris, fingere	fingitur	fingimur	fingiminī	finguntur
	imperfect	fingēbar	fingēbāris, fingēbāre	fingēbātur	fingēbāmur	fingēbāminī	fingēbantur
	future	fingar	fingēris, fingēre	fingētur	fingēmur	fingēminī	fingentur
	perfect	fictus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	fictus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	fictus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fingam	fingās	fingat	fingāmus	fingātis	fingant
	imperfect	fingerem	fingerēs	fingeret	fingerēmus	fingerētis	fingerent
	perfect	finxerim	finxerīs	finxerit	finxerīmus	finxerītis	finxerint
	pluperfect	finxissem	finxissēs	finxisset	finxissēmus	finxissētis	finxissent
passive	present	fingar	fingāris, fingāre	fingātur	fingāmur	fingāminī	fingantur
	imperfect	fingerer	fingerēris, fingerēre	fingerētur	fingerēmur	fingerēminī	fingerentur
	perfect	fictus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	fictus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	finge	—	—	fingite	—
	future	—	fingitō	fingitō	—	fingitōte	finguntō
passive	present	—	fingere	—	—	fingiminī	—
	future	—	fingitor	fingitor	—	—	finguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		fingere	finxisse	fictūrus esse	fingī	fictus esse	fictum īrī
participles		fingēns	—	fictūrus	—	fictus	fingendus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		nominative	genitive	dative/ablative	accusative	accusative	ablative
		fingere	fingendī	fingendō	fingendum	fictum	fictū

Derived terms

• affingō
• effingō
• fictē
• fictum
• fictus

• figmentum
• figūra
• fingibilis
• perfingō

Descendants

• Aromanian: asfingu, disfingu, disfindziri
• Catalan: fènyer, fingir
• Danish: fingere
• Dutch: veinzen, fingeren
• English: feign, fiction
• French: feindre

• Friulian: fenzi
• German: fingieren
• Italian: fingere
• Occitan: fénher
• Portuguese fingir
• Spanish: fingir, heñir

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], 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
    

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Swedish

Verb

fingo

1. Obsolete plural form of fick, past tense of få.