fingas
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;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...posse putas, quin materiai corpora consimili natura praedita fingas, hac ratione tibi pereunt primordia rerum: fiet uti risu..."XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...coetu loquaris, et de re, quam cum maxime fingas, iam dicas esse rumorem? quanta tibi deinde mentiendi materia..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...gravior viderere, non esses tui similis; verba tu fingas et ea dicas, quae non sentias? aut etiam..."
