fingo

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈfin.ɡo/
Rhymes: -inɡo
Hyphenation: fìn‧go

Verb edit

fingo

first-person singular present indicative of fingere

Anagrams edit

fogni, gonfi

Latin edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfin.ɡoː/, [ˈfɪŋɡoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfin.ɡo/, [ˈfiŋɡo]

Verb edit

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

to shape, fashion, form, knead (dough)
Synonyms: fōrmō, effingō
to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.634:
  mulcēre alternōs, et corpora fingere linguā
  to caress them in turn, and to gently stroke their bodies with her tongue
  (The she-wolf nurtures the twins Romulus and Remus.)
- 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.418:
  et fingit linguā corpora bīna sua
  and gently strokes their two bodies with her tongue
  (The she-wolf nurtures the twins Romulus and Remus.)
to adorn, dress, arrange
to dissemble; to alter the truth in order to deceive; feign; pretend
Synonyms: simulō, mentior, ēmentior, affectō, dissimulō, praetendō
to train, teach, instruct
Synonyms: doceō, ēdoceō, discō, ēdūcō, ērudiō, īnstruō, magistrō, imbuō

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of fingō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
indicative		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
subjunctive		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
imperative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	finge	—	—	fingite	—
active	future	—	fingitō	fingitō	—	fingitōte	finguntō
passive	present	—	fingere	—	—	fingiminī	—
passive	future	—	fingitor	fingitor	—	—	finguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
non-finite forms		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		fingere	fīnxisse	fictūrum esse	fingī	fictum esse	fictum īrī
participles		fingēns	—	fictūrus	—	fictus	fingendus, fingundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		fingendī	fingendō	fingendum	fingendō	fictum	fictū

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Aromanian: asfingu, disfingu, disfindziri
Catalan: fènyer, fingir
→ Czech: fingovat
→ Danish: fingere
→ Dutch: veinzen, fingeren
→ English: feign, fiction, fingent
French: feindre
Friulian: fenzi
→ German: fingieren
Italian: fingere
Occitan: fénher
→ Polish: fingować
Portuguese: fingir
Spanish: fingir, heñir
→ Swedish: fingera

References edit

“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

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Verb edit

fingo

obsolete plural of fekk, past of få

Swedish edit

Verb edit

fingo

(pre-1940) plural past indicative of få