imagine Copy link Outline I. To conceive imaginatively1. fingo, nxi, ctum, 3 (to shape or fashion2. concĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (with animo, mente)3. ĭmāgĭnor, 1 (to picture to oneselfII. To invent, deviseIII. Colloq. to think • imagine: I. To conceive imaginatively: 1. fingo, nxi, ctum, 3 (to shape or fashion: usu. with animo or cogitatione): do but i., for our thoughts are free, ... do but i. my condition, fingite animis, liberae sunt enim cogitationes nostrae ... fingite cogitatione imaginem conditionis meae, Cic. Mil. 29, 79: also absol., esp. poet.: i. you see my tears, lacrimas finge videre meas, Ov. Her. 4, extr.: Tib. 2, 6, 51. 2. concĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (with animo, mente): such a noise as cannot be i.d, fragor qui concipi humana mente non possit, Plin. 33, 4, 21 § 73; with rel. clause: you may i. how I am wearied out, concipere animo potes quam simus fatigati, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 24: v. to conceive: and cf. imagination. 3. ĭmāgĭnor, 1 (to picture to oneself: not in the best authors): to i. and form a conception of the (truly) eloquent man, eloquentem i. ac fingere, Quint. 12, 1, 21: Plin.: also foll. by rel. clause, I i. the applause which awaits you, imaginor qui clamor te maneat, Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 7. II. To invent, devise: commĭniscor, mentus, 3 (usu. in bad sense): Epicurus i.d an idle race of gods, Epicurus Deos nihil agentes commentus est, Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59. III. Colloq. to think: pŭto, ŏpīnor: v. to think.