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
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..."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..."Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...conloquium Hannibalis in secreto habitum ac liberum fingenti qua uolt flectit. ominatur, quibus quondam auspiciis patres eorum..."Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...adferri quod, quia testem habere non posset, liberius fingenti esset. ita inde dimissi sunt. nec Blattius ante abstitit..."Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...addit socios> ab latere tyranni quorum capita uilissima fingenti inter dolores gemitusque occurrere. maxime animo tyranni credibile indicium..."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..."