fingo

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfin.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -inɡo
• Hyphenation: fìn‧go

Verb

fingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fingere

Anagrams

• fogni, gonfi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fingō, from earlier *θingō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (degdhi) and English dough.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfin.ɡoː/, [ˈfɪŋɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfin.ɡo/, [ˈfiŋɡo]

Verb

fingō (present infinitive fingere, perfect active fīnxī, supine fictum); third conjugation

1. to shape, fashion, form, knead (dough)

   Synonyms: fōrmō, effingō

2. to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.634:

     mulcēre alternōs, et corpora fingere linguā

     to caress them in turn, and to gently stroke their bodies with her tongue
     (The she-wolf nurtures the twins Romulus and Remus.)

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.418:

     et fingit linguā corpora bīna sua

     and gently strokes their two bodies with her tongue
     (The she-wolf nurtures the twins Romulus and Remus.)

3. to adorn, dress, arrange
4. to dissemble; to alter the truth in order to deceive; feign, pretend, frame, contrive, devise, invent, fancy, imagine

   Synonyms: simulō, mentior, ēmentior, affectō, dissimulō, praetendō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.337–338:

     “[...] Neque ego hanc abscondere fūrtō
     spērāvī — nē finge — fugam [...].”

     “I had never hoped to hide this departure by [some] deceit: Don’t pretend (that I did).”
     (Use of “ne” plus the imperative “finge” to express a negative command.)

5. to train, teach, instruct

   Synonyms: doceō, ēdoceō, discō, ēdūcō, ērudiō, īnstruō, magistrō, imbuō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of fingō (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	fīnxī		fīnxistī		fīnxit		fīnximus		fīnxistis		fīnxērunt, fīnxēre
	pluperfect	fīnxeram		fīnxerās		fīnxerat		fīnxerāmus		fīnxerātis		fīnxerant
	future perfect	fīnxerō		fīnxeris		fīnxerit		fīnxerimus		fīnxeritis		fīnxerint
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	fīnxerim		fīnxerīs		fīnxerit		fīnxerīmus		fīnxerītis		fīnxerint
	pluperfect	fīnxissem		fīnxissēs		fīnxisset		fīnxissēmus		fīnxissētis		fīnxissent
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		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		fingere			fingī			fingēns			—
future		fictūrum esse			fictum īrī			fictūrus			fingendus, fingundus
perfect		fīnxisse			fictum esse			—			fictus
future perfect		—			fictum fore			—			—
perfect potential		fictūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		fingendī		fingendō		fingendum		fingendō		fictum		fictū

Derived terms

• affingō
• diffingō
• effingō
• fictē
• fictiō
• fictum
• fictus
• figmentum
• figūra
• fingibilis
• perfingō

Related terms

• figulus

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • ⇒ Aromanian: asfingu, disfingu, disfindziri
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: fingere
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fenzi
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: finge
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: fènyer
  • French: feindre
    • → English: feign
  • Occitan: fénher
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Spanish: heñir
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: fingir
  • → Czech: fingovat
  • → Danish: fingere
  • → Dutch: veinzen, fingeren
  • → Galician: finxir
  • → German: fingieren
  • → Polish: fingować
  • → Portuguese: fingir
  • → Spanish: fingir
  • → Swedish: fingera
  • ⇒ English: fingent

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 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
    

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fingo

1. obsolete plural of fekk, past of få

Swedish

Verb

fingo

1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of få