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Italian
Verb
effingo
- first-person singular present indicative of effingere
Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of”) + fingō (“shape, fashion, form”).
Pronunciation
Verb
effingō (present infinitive effingere, perfect active effīnxī, supine effictum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to form, fashion
- Synonyms: fōrmō, fingō
- (transitive) to represent, portray, express, depict; imitate, copy
- (transitive) to wipe out, wipe clean
- Synonyms: abstergeō, pūrgō, tergeō, luō, putō
- Antonyms: maculō, inquinō, polluō, scelerō, contingō
- (transitive) to rub gently, stroke
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References
- “effingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “effingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- effingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.