fictus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of fingō (“dissemble, deceive”).
Participle
fictus (feminine ficta, neuter fictum); first/second-declension participle
- feigned, fictitious, false, counterfeit, having been feigned.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | fictus | ficta | fictum | fictī | fictae | ficta | |
| Genitive | fictī | fictae | fictī | fictōrum | fictārum | fictōrum | |
| Dative | fictō | fictō | fictīs | ||||
| Accusative | fictum | fictam | fictum | fictōs | fictās | ficta | |
| Ablative | fictō | fictā | fictō | fictīs | |||
| Vocative | ficte | ficta | fictum | fictī | fictae | ficta | |
Derived terms
- fictīcius
Descendants
- English: feint, fictive
- French: feint, fictif
- Friulian: fent, fint
- Italian: finto
- Occitan: fench
- Portuguese: finta, fita, ficto, fictício
- Spanish: finta
References
- “fictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fictus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- creatures of the imagination: res cogitatione fictae or depictae
- (ambiguous) a feigned expression: vultus ficti simulatique
- creatures of the imagination: res cogitatione fictae or depictae