finget
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. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...legeris. SOS. Illic homo me interpolabit meumque os finget denuo. MERC. Exossatum os esse oportet quem probe percusseris..." - M
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sibi res voces actus secundum verum optime finget: quod quidem nobis volentibus facile continget; nisi vero inter otie..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...reprehendere potest. XLVI. Nam se quoque moveri interim finget, ut pro Rabirio Postumo Cicero, dum aditum sibi..." - P
Aeneid II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...miserum Fortuna Sinonem finxit, vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget. fando aliquod si forte tuas pervenit ad auris Belidae..."