Where does “fictional” come from?
Fictional derives from English fiction, from Latin fictionem (accusative of fictio, meaning "a fashioning or feigning"), from the Latin suffix -tio, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeyǵʰ- meaning "to form or shape."
fictional (English): Invented, as opposed to real; Containing invented...
Definitions
- Invented, as opposed to real; Containing invented...
Ancestry of “fictional”, step by step
fictional traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English fiction
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fiction | Literary type using invented or imaginative... |
| 2 | Middle English | ficcioun | An invention or fabrication |
| 3 | Old French | ficcion | dissimulation, ruse, invention |
| 4 | Latin | fictio | fashioning, forming, formation; fiction |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via French fictionnel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | fictionnel | fictional |
Words derived from “fictional”
- metafictional
- nonfictional
- fictionality
- fictionally
- fictionalization
- fictionalize
- fictionalism
- fictionalist
- semifictional
- fictionalisation
- metafictionality
- metafictionally
- fictionalizer
- defictionalize
- nonfictionally
- hyperfictional
- defictionalization
- transfictional
- fiktiivinen
- bifictional
- fictional other
- prefictional
- fiktiivisyys
- fiktiivisesti