fictam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fictus, ficta, fictum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
feigned, false; counterfeit;
acc. sg. (f.) - Entry →fingo, fingere, finxi, fictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
mold, form, shape; create, invent; produce; imagine; compose; devise, contrive;; adapt, transform into; modify (appearance/character/behavior); groom;; make up (story/excuse); pretend, pose; forge, counterfeit; act insincerely;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...epilogo vero liceat totos effundere adfectus, et fictam orationem induere personis et defunctos excitare et pignora reorum producere..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...sustinere non potuimus uniuersas horremus. equidem fabulam et fictam rem ducebam esse uirorum omne genus in aliqua insula..."
