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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
verbcontrarian claim
feign
To invent, fabricate, make a likeness, or pretend; borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin fingere, to shape or fashion.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
fiction
Invented narrative, imaginative creation, pretense, or legal assumption; borrowed through French from Latin fictio, an action of shaping, molding, or feigning.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗adjectivedossier summary
sincere
Genuine, honest, and free from pretense; borrowed from a Latin adjective of uncertain origin.
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
fiction
invented narrative; imaginative creation; pretense; legal assumption
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- 14th century–today
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Middle French / Indo-European
fiction
invention; feigning; pretense
- DATE
- Middle French
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Latin / Indo-European
fictiō
action of shaping or molding; feigning; pretense; legal fiction
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- Latin antiquity
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did fiction originally mean only an invented story?
No. Latin fictiō includes shaping or molding, feigning, pretense, and legal fiction; Middle English begins with invention of the mind.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 133GRADE Aranked reveal
Fiction is historically something shaped.
Latin fictiō names shaping or molding, feigning, and pretense before English literary narrative becomes one major center.
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