Words that come from Latin “fingere”

141 words across 16 languages descend from Latin fingere — including fiction, faint, fictional, fain, fainting, nonfiction, fainter, feigning.

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English (91)

Danish (11)

French (8)

Old French (8)

Spanish (5)

Middle English (4)

Portuguese (3)

Latin (2)

Japanese (2)

Polish (1)

Italian (1)

Irish (1)

Catalan (1)

Friulian (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Bourguignon (1)