English → Latin
“fictitious” in Latin
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, pretendcommentīciusinvented, devised, fabricated; imaginary; fictitiousfictiōfashioning, forming, formation; fiction
The English word fictitious itself goes back to Latin fingō, through fictīcius.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fictitious
fictus: confictus: commenticius (☞ not fictititius). Fictitious gods, dii adumbrati: dii ficti et commenticii. A fictitious case, fictio (in rhetoric, Quint.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fictitious?
- The usual Latin words for “fictitious” are fingō, cōnfingō, commentīcius; also 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.