PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. Latin fictiō and figūra are sibling formations in the fingere and *dheigh- family; neither English word is the parent of the other.
/ˈfɪkʃən/ · noun
Invented narrative, imaginative creation, pretense, or legal assumption; borrowed through French from Latin fictio, an action of shaping, molding, or feigning.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Places fiction on the verb-stem branch.
Fictiō from fig-, variant stem of fingereLists figure and fiction under distinct formations.
dheigh- items 4 and 5The graph meets at fingere or deeper, never through a fiction-to-figure edge.