English → Latin
“feigned” in Latin
simulōto make like, simulate, imitate, copy, represent; to feign, pretend; to behave or act (as if, as though)fingōto shape, fashion, form, knead (dough); to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle; to adorn, dress, arrangecōnfingōto form, fashion, fabricate; to invent, devise, feign, pretendfallōto deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint; to mistake, be mistaken, deceive oneself; to escape the compōnōto arrange, compile, compose, make up, organize, order; to construct, build; to pacify, allay, settle, calm, appease, qufictiōfashioning, forming, formation; fiction
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
feigned
simulatus: fictus: confictus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) fictus et commenticius; commenticius et fictus: falsus (false). To bring a feigned charge against anybody, crimen alicui affingere (Tac.): to get up a feigned charge, crimen confingere, componere. A feigned case, fictio (in rhetoric) [SYN. in To FEIGN]: feigned tears, lacrimae confictae: one little feigned tear, una falsa lacrimula.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for feigned?
- The usual Latin words for “feigned” are simulō, fingō, cōnfingō; also fallō, compōnō, fictiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.