fingo

fingo (countable and uncountable, plural fingos or fingo)

1. A protective talisman in various forms, used by the Mijikenda people of Kenya.

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

fingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fingere

• fogni, gonfi

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɪŋ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfiŋ.ɡo]

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

• figulus

• “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
    

fingo

1. obsolete plural of fekk, past of få

fingo

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