fingo

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

fingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fingere

Anagrams

• fogni, gonfi

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. to shape, fashion, form, knead (dough)

   Synonyms: fōrmō, effingō

2. 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.)

   • 8 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.)

3. to adorn, dress, arrange
4. to dissemble; to alter the truth in order to deceive; feign, pretend, frame, contrive, devise, invent, fancy, imagine

   Synonyms: simulō, mentior, ēmentior, affectō, dissimulō, praetendō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.337–338:

     “[...] Neque ego hanc abscondere fūrtō
     spērāvī — nē finge — fugam [...].”

     “I had never hoped to hide this departure by [some] deceit: Don’t pretend (that I did).”
     (Use of “ne” plus the imperative “finge” to express a negative command.)

5. to train, teach, instruct

   Synonyms: doceō, ēdoceō, discō, ēdūcō, ērudiō, īnstruō, magistrō, imbuō

Conjugation

Conjugation of fingō (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	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

• affingō
• diffingō
• effingō
• fictum
• fictus
• fictē
• figmentum
• figūra
• fingibilis
• perfingō

 

Related terms

• figulus

Descendants

• 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

• “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

Verb

fingo

1. obsolete plural of fekk, past of få

Swedish

Verb

fingo

1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of få