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
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...legeris. SOS. Illic homo me interpolabit meumque os finget denuo. MERC. Exossatum os esse oportet quem probe percusseris..."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..."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..."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..."
