fingebant
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. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...quaeque alia summa facundia nec minore adulatione servilia fingebant, securi de facilitate credentis. Gliscebat interim luxuria spe inani..." - P
Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...itineris ac maris tempusque interiectum moverat famam. vulgoque fingebant petitum ab eo Corbulonem, magnis tum exercitibus praesidentem..." - P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...pergere ad paternos exercitus, Aegyptum aut Syriam invasurum, fingebant simul credebantque. iam iuventutis concursu, iam publicis studiis frequentabatur..."