fingant
Dictionary entries
- 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;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
XVII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...gratiam parat, si de nobis aliqua mentiantur, fingant? videlicet hoc nos in facinus praecipitat, inpellit, quod aliquid speramus..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...homines essent, usitate loquerentur —, dum res maneant, verba fingant arbitratu suo. XXX. [90] Sed venio ad inconstantiae crimen..."Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...iube sub imagine regis Alcyonen adeant simulacraque naufraga fingant. imperat hoc Iuno.' postquam mandata peregit, Iris abit: neque..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Quinctius deiecit? Equidem adhuc, qualem aut sibi fingant aut uobis uideri uelint hostem fuisse, non inuenio. Si degenerem..."