English
fingent
Fingent comes from Latin fingēns ‘shaping, fashioning’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfingēns‘shaping, fashioning’
- Englishearliest quotation 1846fingent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfingēns‘shaping, fashioning’
- Englishearliest quotation 1846fingent
Earliest quotation: 1846, Thomas Carlyle?, Miscellanea Mystica—No. II: “Goethe, say his censors, has, in the poem in…”
Every English word from Latin fingēns
Today it means
adj Given to fashioning or molding.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fingēns / fingent