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• figure (subs.):

1. fĭgūra (most gen. term): the human f. surpasses the form of all other animals, omnium animantium formam vincit hominis f., Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 48: v. shape.
2. făcies, ēi (of human beings): the beautiful woman is she whose entire f. wins admiration, formosa est cujus universa f. admirationem abstulit, Sen. Ep. 33, 5: esp. of the face, q. v.
3. forma (any form): the female f., muliebris f., Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1: v. form. Mathemat.: (Archimedes) intent on the f.s he had drawn in the dust, intentus formis quas in pulvere descripserat, Liv. 25, 31: v. diagram.
4. conformātio, Cic.: v. shape. Phr.: to cut a f., partes agere (to play a part): what a f. he cut, *qualem personam et quam indignam suscepit! v. character (VI.).

1. signum (representation of something): a f. painted on the wall, s. pictum in pariete, Pl. Merc. 2, 2, 44: a robe stiff with (embroidered) f.s and gold, palla signis auroque rigida, Virg. Aen. 1, 648: see also statue. Dimin. sĭgilla, orum (only pl.), small f.s: a dish with admirable f.s, patella in qua s. erant egregia, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48: adorned with such f.s, sigillatus, Cic. Verr. 4, 14, 32.
2. ty̆pus (in relief): f.s to let into plaster, typi qui in tectorio possint includi, Cic. Att. 1, 10: Plin.
3. emblēma, ătis (a kind of moveable figured decoration): Cic.: v. Dict. Ant. s. v.

1. fĭgūra (including any f. of speech): Quint. 9, 1, 1.
2. translātio (a metaphor): f.s were introduced through poverty of speech, verbi tr. instituta est inopiae causa, Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 155: v. figurative, figuratively.

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• figure (v.): fingo, 3: v. to form, imagine.

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figura (general term for shape, with reference to its outline, οχῆμα): forma (the form, with reference to internal properties with which it corresponds; to color and beauty as well as to outline, μορφή): species (the external appearance, whether agreeing with the real nature of the thing itself or not, εἶδος). (The words are found in this connection and order.) figura et forma; forma ac figura; forma figuraque; figura et species; forma atque species; species atque figura or forma. Geometrical figures, formae ☞ not figurae) geometricae (Cic., Rep., 1, 17); descriptiones (Cic., Tusc., 1, 17, 38): So in drawing,” figure” is forma, not figura. To describe geometrical figures, formas geometricas describere. The figure of a man, or the human figure, figura hominum or humana; humana species ac figura; humana forma. To cut a bad figure in anything, *parum honestae sunt meae partes in aliqua re: he cut but an indifferent figure, *minus splendide se gessit.
In rhetoric, forma: orationis lumen, or insigne, or ornamentum (Cic. uses these expressions, but figura, which afterward became a technical term, is to be preferred to them; Cic. himself prepared the way for its adoption; e.g., sententiae et earum formae, tamquam figurae. De Opt. Gen. Orat., 5, 14): oratorical figures, orationis ornamenta; verborum exornationes (Auct., ad Herenn.). ☞ “Metaphors,” translatio, and “tropes,” tropus, are distinguished from figurae by Quint., 9, 1, 4.

v. To form into a determined shape, fingere: figurare: formare: formam alicujus rei facere: imaginem alicujus rei ducere; from anything, ex re (to form an image out of any shapeless mass). [Vid: To FORM.] (The words are found in this connection and order.) fingere et formare. To figure anything, aliquid in formam alicujus rei redigere. [Vid: also, To FORM.]
To depict, Vid:
To represent, as a type, repraesentare effigiem or speciem alicujus rei (to have or bear the image or look of anything): indicare: significare (to indicate, to signify).
To diversify with figures, figuris ornare or variare (Quint.): distinguere (to ornament a surface by bright or other striking objects placed at intervals). (The words are found in this connection and order.) distinguere et ornare: ornare et distinguere. Figured goblets, caelata pocula.
To conceive a notion of anything, or to represent to one’s mind, cogitatione sibi fingere: animo sibi effingere: animo concipere: to figure anything to one’s self, proponere sibi ante oculos animumque.

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