fingi
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;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...vidi aut audivi, neque pol dici nec fingi potest peior quam haec est: quae ubi me habere hunc..."Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...nobis meritas dabis, impia, poenaset superis, quos fingis,' ait 'nisi mergeris antrisdeque orbis trepidi tanto consulta tumultu 160desinis..."Liber IX
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Artibus his semper cenam, Philomuse, mereris, plurima dum fingis, sed quasi vera refers. scis quid in Arsacia Pacorus..."Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...modo causidicum, dum te modo rhetora fingis et non decernis, Laure, quid esse uelis, Peleos et Priami transit..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...impelli et diduci et in aliquam faciem fingi potest; is autem qui fluit ne feritur quidem lumine..."ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...concursibus nec classes classibus frangi nec parricidia aut fingi aut cogitari nec fora litibus strepere dies perpetuos, nihil..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...uento tranquilla tument. quos tibi luctus quosue tumultus fingis, demens? credula praesta pectora fratri. Iam, quidquid..."Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...fricari aut tergeri aut ornari, poliri expoliri, pingi fingi; et una binae singulis quae datae nobis ancillae..."