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Where does “fingere” come from?

fingere (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European dʰeyǵʰ- — to knead; to form, to shape.

fingere (Latin): second-person singular future passive indicative...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative...

Ancestry of “fingere”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeandʰeyǵʰ-to knead; to form, to shape

Words derived from “fingere”

  • fiction
  • faint
  • fictional
  • fain
  • fainting
  • nonfiction
  • fainter
  • feigning
  • feign
  • feint
  • fainthearted
  • metafiction
  • metafictional
  • nonfictional
  • fictionality
  • fictionally
  • fictionalization
  • finagle
  • fainteth
  • fictionalize
  • faintheartedness
  • fictionalism
  • faineant
  • fictionalist
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