Where does “feint” come from?
feint (French) comes from Old French feint, from Latin fictus, from Latin fīgere, from Proto-Indo-European dʰēygʷ-.
feint (French): past participle of feindre; third-person singular...
Definitions
- past participle of feindre; third-person singular...
Ancestry of “feint”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | feint | feigned; negligent; sluggish |
| 2 | Latin | fictus | feigned, fictitious, false, counterfeit, having... |
| 3 | Latin | fīgere | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰēygʷ- | — |
Words derived from “feint”