effingo
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Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
effingo
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ex- (“out of”) + fingō (“shape, fashion, form”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /efˈfin.ɡoː/, [ɛfˈfɪŋɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /efˈfin.ɡo/, [efˈfiŋɡo]
Verb[edit]
effingō (present infinitive effingere, perfect active effīnxī, supine effictum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to form, fashion
- (transitive) to represent, portray, express, depict; imitate, copy
- (transitive) to wipe out, wipe clean
- (transitive) to rub gently, stroke
Conjugation[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
- Italian: effingere
References[edit]
- “effingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “effingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- effingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.