fictus Latin · revision 31108

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=ine-pro *dʰeyǵʰ-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fictus''' (feminine ''ficta'', neuter ''fictum''); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ A homonymous ''fictus'' occurs as a variant of ''fīxus'', the participle of [[fīgō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the participle of [[m|la|fingō|t=to shape, invent]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces ⟨fingō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*finge/o-|t=to knead, form]] and the nasal present [[ine-pro|*dʰi-n-ǵʰ-]], from the root of [[m|ine-pro|*dʰeyǵʰ-]] “wall”.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|feíhúss|t=walls]] and [[sa|देह्|tr=deh-|t=to smear, plaster]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Lucilius, of the poet's stories: “nothing true, all made up” (''vērī nihil, omnia ficta'').^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of stories and accounts it is untrue or invented, as Cicero's “a made-up and fictitious tale” and Virgil's “invented song”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of feelings it is feigned, as Ovid's little maid weeping falsely, and of persons and their character insincere or deceitful, as Virgil's Sinon who “speaks with a false heart”; of witnesses it is lying.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “deceitful, feigned”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of made-up stories.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a fictitious tale.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a deceitful heart.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of pretended weeping.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # (of stories) Untrue, made up, [[m|en|fictitious]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (of feelings) Pretended, [[m|en|feigned]], sham.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # (of persons) Insincere, [[m|en|deceitful]], (of witnesses) false, lying.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fingō]]

+ * [[fictiō]]

+ * [[fictor]]

+ * [[figūra]]

+ * [[effigiēs]]

+ * [[en|fiction]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}