fingentium
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. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...istorum praestigiae philosophari sese dicentium umbrasque verborum inanes fingentium, qui se nihil habere et nihil tamen egere..."XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ullus innocens hucusque felix est, ut diligentiae fingentium par sit. quemquamne mortalium in re, quam finxerit, quam conposuerit..."