Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness · Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected. · Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp. · Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
The act of fainting, syncope. · The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
Etymology tree Latin fingere Old French faindre /feindre Old French faint /feint Middle English faynt /feynt English faint From Middle English faynt, feynt (“weak; feeble”), from Old French faint, feint (“feigned; negligent; sluggish”), past participle of feindre, faindre (“to feign; sham; work negligently”), from Latin fingere (“to touch, handle, form, shape, frame, form in thought, imagine, conceive, contrive, devise, feign”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognate with feign and fiction and more distantly dough.
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