figment
/ˈfɪɡmɪnt/FIG-mint
/ˈfɪɡmɪnt/FIG-mint
Meaningsomething invented
Common meaning: something imagined
- figto shape, mould; to inventLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 750 · scan
- mentnoun ending: act or result
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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Origin: Built on Latin fingō ‘to shape, mould; to invent’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry fingō, p. 750 · dictionary scan
Roots
- fingō, fīnxī, fictum; figūra Latin “to shape, mould; to invent”
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