fingendos
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;
acc. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
- A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...faciendo dicta, ut ab aspectu species et a fingendo figura. III. Itaque Pacuvius in tragoedia, quae Niptra inscribitur..." - C
Agesilaus
Cornelius Nepos
"...animi virtutibus, sic maleficam nactus est in corpore fingendo. Nam et statura fuit humili et corpore exiguo..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...praeter id quod solam petit voluptatem eamque [etiam] fingendo non falsa modo sed etiam quaedam incredibilia sectatur, patrocinio..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...honore, si eloquentiam eius et gratiam nos timere fingendo ut ea suspecta sint iudici fecerimus, interim per contumeliam..." - T
Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...multitudinem consul alter Romae praetorque alias ex aliis fingendo moras retinebat. Et primo quidem ignari ludificationis minime inviti..."