fingens

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of fingō.

Participle

fingēns (genitive fingentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. shaping, fashioning, forming, arranging
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.147–148:

     [...] mollīque fluentem / fronde premit crīnem fingēns atque implicat aurō; [...].

     [Apollo] restrains his flowing hair, arranging it with a tender [laurel] wreath, and entwines it with a golden [diadem]; [...].

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	fingēns			fingentēs	fingentia
genitive	fingentis			fingentium
dative	fingentī			fingentibus
accusative	fingentem	fingēns		fingentēs fingentīs	fingentia
ablative	fingente fingentī1			fingentibus
vocative	fingēns			fingentēs	fingentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.