fictus

Perfect passive participle of fingō (“dissemble, deceive”); from Proto-Italic *fiktos, from earlier *θiktos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰiǵʰ-tós.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfik.tus/, [ˈfɪkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfik.tus/, [ˈfikt̪us]

fictus (feminine ficta, neuter fictum); first/second-declension participle

1. feigned, fictitious, false, counterfeit, having been feigned.

First/second-declension adjective.

• fictīcius

Alternative form of fīxus, perfect passive participle of fīgō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfiːk.tus/, [ˈfiːkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfik.tus/, [ˈfikt̪us]

fīctus (feminine fīcta, neuter fīctum); first/second-declension participle

1. Alternative form of fīxus
   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica 3.7.4.7:

     Sub ordines singulos tabulae fictae ut sint bipalmes, quo utantur vestibulo ac prodeant.

   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.4, (interpreted by Konstan 1988 as a pun or dual meaning alluding to the sense "false" or "fictive" of fictus, the participle of fingo[1]):

     E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen
     qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda vitae,
     te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc
     ficta pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,
     non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem
     quod te imitari aveo; quid enim contendat hirundo
     cycnis, aut quid nam tremulis facere artubus haedi
     consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi vis?

   • 70 CE , (engraved Roman military diploma):[2]

     Recognitu(m) ex tabula aenea, quae ficta est Romae in Capitolio ante emeritorum antearam gentis Iuliae intri(n)secus podium lateris dexteriori(s) contra signum Liberi{s} patris, tabula II.

   • c. 4th century, Diomedes Grammaticus, Ars grammatica 1.377, (mentioned in grammatical discussion that cites alleged earlier uses; this passage may be based on Pliny the Elder's work Dubii sermonis):[3]

     ‘figor’ ambigue declinatur apud ueteres tempore perfecto. reperimus enim ‘fictus’ et ‘fixus’: Scaurus De vita sua ‘sagittis–inquit–confictus’, Varro ad Ciceronem tertio ‘fixum’, et Cicero Academicorum tertio ***‘malcho in opera adfixa’, et Vergilius ‘si mihi non animo fixum’.

First/second-declension adjective.

• Italian: fitto
• Spanish: hito

• “fictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fictus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • creatures of the imagination: res cogitatione fictae or depictae
    
  • (ambiguous) a feigned expression: vultus ficti simulatique