perfingo
Latin
Etymology
per- (“very much”, “thoroughly”, “perfectly”) + fingō (“I form mentally or in speech”, “I represent in thought”; “I alter or change [something] for the purpose of dissembling”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /perˈfin.ɡoː/, [pɛrˈfɪŋɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /perˈfin.ɡo/, [perˈfiŋɡo]
Verb
perfingō (present infinitive perfingere, perfect active perfīnxī, supine perfictum); third conjugation
- (transitive) I form, represent
- (transitive) I counterfeit perfectly
Conjugation
References
- “perfingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- perfingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,147/1.