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
- T
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..."