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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Quintilian|origins=la fingō}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''fictiō''' ''f'' (genitive fictiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[fingō]] “to shape, feign” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) A popular form ⟨finctiō⟩ is in the apocryphal letters of Paul and in Augustine.^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Quintilian, and Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan and especially frequent in Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Quintilian c. 35–95/96 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant shaping, fashioning, formation, and the coining of words, as in Quintilian and Gellius' ''vōcum fictiōnēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant a feigning, pretence, and ''persōnae fictiō'' personification, prosopopoeia, and a supposition, and in law a legal fiction enabling an action to be brought.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant guile, fiction, creation.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it of feigning, deceit and hypocrisy, and British Medieval Latin of God's fashioning of man.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) [[en|fiction]] came in the early 15th century through Old French, first “something invented in the mind”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of fashioning and of supposition.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of coined words.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * early 15th century – English ''fiction'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A shaping, fashioning; the coining of words.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A feigning, pretence, ''persōnae fictiō'', [[m|en|personification]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # A supposition, ''(law)'' a legal [[m|en|fiction]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Deceit, hypocrisy.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[fingō]]
+ * [[fictus]]
+ * [[figmentum]]
+ * [[en|fiction]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}