Feigned
/feɪnd/noun
Pretended; made to seem real or true without actually being so.
Did you know?Feigned ultimately comes from Latin fingere, “to shape, mold, or fashion,” the same root behind fiction—so a “fake” thing was originally something carefully crafted into being.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*dheigh-
“To form, shape, or mold.”
Latin
Latin
fingere
“To shape, form, fashion; later, to invent or pretend.”
Latin
Latin
fictus
“Fashioned, invented, counterfeit.”
Old French
Old French
feindre
“To pretend, shirk, or make a false show.”
Middle English
English
feigned
“Pretended; counterfeit; made up.”
Modern English
English
feigned
“Pretended; not genuine or sincere.”