fingentis
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;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...nomina dederunt, sed varia et ut cuique fingenti placuit: fons quidem unus, qui acriora facit et instantiora quae..." - M
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...animi sui imitantis, dissimulatio aliena se parum intellegere fingentis. Simulavit Afer cum in causa subinde dicentibus Celsinam..." - T
Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...conloquium Hannibalis in secreto habitum ac liberum fingenti qua uolt flectit. ominatur, quibus quondam auspiciis patres eorum..." - T
Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...adferri quod, quia testem habere non posset, liberius fingenti esset. ita inde dimissi sunt. nec Blattius ante abstitit..." - T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...addit socios> ab latere tyranni quorum capita uilissima fingenti inter dolores gemitusque occurrere. maxime animo tyranni credibile indicium..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...nutuque maria, terrae, pax, bella regerentur: quum interea fingenti formantique mihi principem, quem aequata diis immortalibus potestas deceret..."