fingentur
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. fut. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...torvi, mites, asperi fiunt: quae ut actus poposcerit fingentur. LXXVI. Rigidi vero et extenti aut languidi et torpentes..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...licet. Sint ergo et ipsae materiae quae fingentur quam simillimae ueritati, et declamatio, in quantum maxime potest, imitetur..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...fore librum persimilem, cuius, uelut aegri somnia, uanae fingentur species, ut nec pes nec caput uni reddatur formae..."
