# fingo
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfin.ɡo/
* Rhymes: -inɡo
* Hyphenation: fìn‧go

### Verb

fingo
* 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 Latin) IPA: /ˈfin.ɡoː/, [ˈfɪŋɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfin.ɡo/, [ˈfiŋɡo]

### Verb

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 linguāto 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 suaand 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, 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.)
* to train, teach, instruct
    Synonyms: doceō, ēdoceō, discō, ēdūcō, ērudiō, īnstruō, magistrō, imbuō

#### Derived terms

* affingō
* diffingō
* effingō
* fictē
* fictiō
* fictum
* fictus
* figmentum
* figūra
* fingibilis
* perfingō

#### Related terms

* figulus

#### Descendants

* Balkano-Romance:
** ⇒ Aromanian: asfingu, disfingu, disfindziri
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: fingere
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: fenzi
* Gallo-Italic:
** Piedmontese: finge
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: fènyer
** French: feindre
*** → English: feign
** Occitan: fénher
* Ibero-Romance:
** Spanish: heñir
* Borrowings:
** → Catalan: fingir
** → Czech: fingovat
** → Danish: fingere
** → Dutch: veinzen, fingeren
** → Galician: finxir
** → German: fingieren
** → Polish: fingować
** → Portuguese: fingir
** → Spanish: fingir
** → Swedish: fingera
** ⇒ English: fingent

### 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, 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
* obsolete plural of fekk, past of få

## Swedish
### Verb

fingo
* (pre-1940) plural past indicative of få