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Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of fingō (“dissemble, deceive”); from Proto-Italic *fiktos, from earlier *θiktos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰiǵʰ-tós.
Pronunciation
Participle
fictus (feminine ficta, neuter fictum); first/second-declension participle
- feigned, fictitious, false, counterfeit, having been feigned.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Alternative form of fīxus, perfect passive participle of fīgō.
Pronunciation
Participle
fīctus (feminine fīcta, neuter fīctum); first/second-declension participle
- Alternative form of fīxus
c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE,
Lucretius,
De Rerum Natura 3.4, (interpreted by Konstan 1988 as a pun or dual meaning alluding to the sense "false" or "fictive" of
fictus, the participle of
fingo[1]):
- E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen
qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda vitae,
te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc
ficta pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,
non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem
quod te imitari aveo; quid enim contendat hirundo
cycnis, aut quid nam tremulis facere artubus haedi
consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi vis?
70 CE , (engraved
Roman military diploma):
[2]- Recognitu(m) ex tabula aenea, quae ficta est Romae in Capitolio ante emeritorum antearam gentis Iuliae intri(n)secus podium lateris dexteriori(s) contra signum Liberi{s} patris, tabula II.
c. 4th century,
Diomedes Grammaticus,
Ars grammatica 1.377, (mentioned in grammatical discussion that cites alleged earlier uses; this passage may be based on Pliny the Elder's work
Dubii sermonis):
[3]- ‘figor’ ambigue declinatur apud ueteres tempore perfecto. reperimus enim ‘fictus’ et ‘fixus’: Scaurus De vita sua ‘sagittis–inquit–confictus’, Varro ad Ciceronem tertio ‘fixum’, et Cicero Academicorum tertio ***‘malcho in opera adfixa’, et Vergilius ‘si mihi non animo fixum’.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- ^ Konstan, David (1988) “Lucretius on Poetry: III.1-13”, in Colby Library Quarterly, volume 24, number 2, pages 65-70
- ^ Sharankov, Nicolay (2006) “A Military Diploma of 7 March 70 AD for Legio II Adiutrix”, in Archaeologia Bulgarica, volume 10, number 2, pages 37-46
- ^ Garcea, Alessandro (2019) “Diomedes as a Source for Pliny’s Dubio Sermo: Some Editorial Problems”, in Rationes Rerum–Rivista di filologia e storia, volume 14, pages 53-71
Further reading
- “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