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
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..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...itineris ac maris tempusque interiectum moverat famam. vulgoque fingebant petitum ab eo Corbulonem, magnis tum exercitibus praesidentem..."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..."