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
- M
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - T
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Quinctius deiecit? Equidem adhuc, qualem aut sibi fingant aut uobis uideri uelint hostem fuisse, non inuenio. Si degenerem..."