fingo
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Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
fingo
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (degdhi) and English dough.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
fingō (present infinitive fingere, perfect active fīnxī, supine fictum); third conjugation
- I shape, fashion, form, knead (dough)
- I adorn, dress, arrange
- I dissemble; I alter the truth in order to deceive; feign; pretend
- I train, teach, instruct
Conjugation[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aromanian: asfingu, disfingu, disfindziri
- Catalan: fènyer, fingir
- Danish: fingere
- Dutch: veinzen, fingeren
- English: feign, fiction
- French: feindre
- Friulian: fenzi
- German: fingieren
- Italian: fingere
- Mozarabic:
- Arabic: فِنْيِرِ (fiɲiri)
- Hebrew: פיִנייִריִ (fiɲiri)
- Occitan: fénher
- Portuguese: fingir
- Spanish: fingir, heñir
- Swedish: fingera
References[edit]
- 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[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
- to dissemble, disguise one's feelings: vultum fingere
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Verb[edit]
fingo
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
fingo
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- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Latin words infixed with -n-
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeyǵʰ-
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms with Ecclesiastical IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin third conjugation verbs with perfect in -s- or -x-
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk verb forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk obsolete verb forms
- Swedish non-lemma forms
- Swedish verb forms
- Swedish obsolete verb forms