fiction

fingo (Latin)

I adorn, dress, arrange. I dissemble; I alter the truth in order to deceive; feign; pretend. I shape, fashion, form, knead (dough). I train, teach, instruct.

fictio (Latin)

Fashioning, forming, formation. Fiction.

ficcion (Old French)

fiction (English)

(legal) A legal fiction.. (uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.