English

fainten

From faint + -en (verbal suffix).

Formed from faint + -en

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- ‘to mold’

Latin fingere ‘to touch, handle, form, shape, frame, form in…’

Old French faint

Middle English faynt ‘weak’

English faint

Today it means

verb To make or become faint.

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