英语词汇fictitious的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fictitious
词源	fictitious adj. 1610s, "artificial, counterfeit;" 1620s, "existing only in imagination," from Medieval Latin fictitius, a misspelling of Latin ficticius "artificial, counterfeit," from fictus "feigned, fictitious, false," past participle of fingere "to shape, form, devise, feign" (from PIE root dheigh- "to form, build"). Related: Fictitiously; fictitiousness. Entries linking to fictitious* *dheigh- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to form, build." It forms all or part of: configure; dairy; dey (n.1) "female servant, housekeeper, maid;" disfigure; dough; effigy; faineant; faint; feign; feint; fictile; fiction; fictitious; figment; figure; figurine; lady; paradise; prefigure; thixotropy; transfigure. It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit dehah "body," literally "that which is formed," dih- "to besmear;" Greek teikhos "wall;" Latin fingere "to form, fashion," figura "a shape, form, figure;" Old Irish digen "firm, solid," originally "kneaded into a compact mass;" Gothic deigan "to smear," Old English dag, Gothic daigs "dough." fictional adj. "pertaining to fiction," 1833, from fiction + -al (1). Earlier fictitious also was used in this sense (1773). updated on May 23, 2017
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fictitious adj.

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