fingeret
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;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...fieri. SY. quid faceret? CH. rogas? aliquid reperiret, fingeret fallacias unde esset adulescenti amicae quod daret, atque hunc..."Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...kata parakolouthesin. "Sicut," inquit "cum corpora hominum natura fingeret, ratio subtilior et utilitas ipsa operis postulavit, ut tenuissimis..."
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...pharetrasque rependerat auro Salmoneus, nondum ille furens, cum fingeret alti quadrifida trabe tela Iovis contraque ruenti aut Athon..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...alia in primo ortu perficeret, alia progrediente aetate fingeret neque sane multum adiumentis externis et adventiciis uteretur. Animum..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...supererant spes viresque: cum e contrario laeta omnia fingeret, falsis ingravescebat. mirum apud ipsum de bello silentium; prohibiti..."Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...vacua mens audita simulacra et inanes sibi metus fingeret. Initio, quale ubique, silentium noctis; dein concuti ferrum, vincula..."