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fingo

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EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (degdhi) and English dough.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

fingō (present infinitive fingere, perfect active fīnxī, supine fictum); third conjugation

  1. I shape, fashion, form, knead (dough)
  2. I adorn, dress, arrange
  3. I dissemble; I alter the truth in order to deceive; feign; pretend
  4. I train, teach, instruct

ConjugationEdit

   Conjugation of fingo (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present fingō fingis fingit fingimus fingitis fingunt
imperfect fingēbam fingēbās fingēbat fingēbāmus fingēbātis fingēbant
future fingam fingēs finget fingēmus fingētis fingent
perfect fīnxī fīnxistī fīnxit fīnximus fīnxistis fīnxērunt, fīnxēre
pluperfect fīnxeram fīnxerās fīnxerat fīnxerāmus fīnxerātis fīnxerant
future perfect fīnxerō fīnxeris fīnxerit fīnxerimus fīnxeritis fīnxerint
passive present fingor fingeris, fingere fingitur fingimur fingiminī finguntur
imperfect fingēbar fingēbāris, fingēbāre fingēbātur fingēbāmur fingēbāminī fingēbantur
future fingar fingēris, fingēre fingētur fingēmur fingēminī fingentur
perfect fictus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect fictus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect fictus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present fingam fingās fingat fingāmus fingātis fingant
imperfect fingerem fingerēs fingeret fingerēmus fingerētis fingerent
perfect fīnxerim fīnxerīs fīnxerit fīnxerīmus fīnxerītis fīnxerint
pluperfect fīnxissem fīnxissēs fīnxisset fīnxissēmus fīnxissētis fīnxissent
passive present fingar fingāris, fingāre fingātur fingāmur fingāminī fingantur
imperfect fingerer fingerēris, fingerēre fingerētur fingerēmur fingerēminī fingerentur
perfect fictus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect fictus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — finge — — fingite —
future — fingitō fingitō — fingitōte finguntō
passive present — fingere — — fingiminī —
future — fingitor fingitor — — finguntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives fingere fīnxisse fictūrus esse fingī fictus esse fictum īrī
participles fingēns — fictūrus — fictus fingendus
verbal nouns gerund supine
nominative genitive dative/ablative accusative accusative ablative
fingere fingendī fingendō fingendum fictum fictū

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DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • fingo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fingo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to dissemble, disguise one's feelings: vultum fingere
    • to be at the beck and call of another; to be his creature: totum se fingere et accommodare ad alicuius arbitrium et nutum
    • to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive: animo, cogitatione aliquid fingere (or simply fingere, but without sibi), informare
    • Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas, quam Plato finxit
    • to introduce a person (into a dialogue) discoursing on..: aliquem disputantem facere, inducere, fingere (est aliquid apud aliquem disputans)
    • to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere

SwedishEdit

VerbEdit

fingo

  1. Obsolete plural form of fick, past tense of få.
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