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Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti

Proto-Italic *θingō

Proto-Italic *fingōder.

Latin fingō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin fictiōder.

Old French ficcionbor.

Middle English ficcioun

English fiction

From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɪkʃən/, [ˈfɪkʃən] ~ [ˈfɪkʃn̩]
- Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Hyphenation: fic‧tion

Noun

fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions)

(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
I am a great reader of fiction.

the fiction section of the library
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.
The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.

The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.

separate the fact from the fiction
- 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
  […] in view of the facts—and some fictions—recently circulated in this country about the general performance of high-powered diesel-hydraulics of B.R., […] .
- 1801, Rev. John Moir, The Gospel of Jesus the Philosophy of Life. With an Appendix and Index‎^[1], page 241:
  The transitory objects of sense, and most romantic fictions of imagination, have more of their hearts, and more of their credit, than all the hopes and fears the Bible contains, or futurity suggests!
(law) A legal fiction.

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Descendants

→ Irish: ficsean
→ Scottish Gaelic: ficsean

Translations

literary type

Arabic: خَيَال (ar) m (ḵayāl), رِوَايَة (ar) f (riwāya)
Belarusian: маста́цкая літарату́ра f (mastáckaja litaratúra), бэлетры́стыка f (beljetrýstyka), кра́снае пісьме́нства n (krásnaje pisʹmjénstva)
Bulgarian: белетри́стика (bg) f (beletrístika), худо́жествена литерату́ра f (hudóžestvena literatúra)
Catalan: ficció (ca) f
Cebuano: handurawat
Chinese:
Mandarin: 虛構文學 / 虚构文学 (zh) (xūgòu wénxué), (literally, "novels") 小說 / 小说 (zh) (xiǎoshuō)
Czech: beletrie (cs) f
Danish: fiktion c, skønlitteratur c
Dutch: fictie (nl) f
Esperanto: fikcio (eo)
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: skaldskapur
Finnish: fiktio (fi), kaunokirjallisuus (fi)
French: fiction (fr) f, belles-lettres (fr) f pl
Galician: ficción (gl) f
German: Fiktion (de) f, Belletristik (de) f
Greek: μυθιστόρημα (el) m (mythistórima)
Ancient Greek: μυθολογία f (muthología)
Hindi: काल्पनिक (hi) (kālpanik)
Hungarian: szépirodalom (hu)
Icelandic: skáldskapur m
Indonesian: fiksi (id)
Irish: ficsean m (uncountable), finscéal m (countable)
Italian: finzione (it) f
Japanese: フィクション (ja) (fikushon), 小説 (ja) (しょうせつ, shōsetsu)
Javanese: dedongèngan
Kalmyk: урн зокъял (urn zokʺyal)
Korean: 소설(小說) (ko) (soseol), 픽션 (piksyeon)
Latin: res ficta, fabula (la) f, commentum n
Latvian: daiļliteratūra f, beletristika (lv) f
Lithuanian: grožinė literatūra f
Macedonian: белетристика f (beletristika)
Malay: cereka (ms), cerita rekaan, fiksyen (ms), fiksi
Māori: pakiwaitara, pakimaero
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fiksjon m, skjønnlitteratur (no) m

Nynorsk: fiksjon m, skjønnlitteratur m
Occitan: ficcion (oc) f
Old English: lēasspell n
Persian: داستانی (fa) (dâstâni)
Plautdietsch: Romaunschreft f
Polish: beletrystyka (pl) f
Portuguese: literatura de ficção f, ficção (pt) f, ficcionismo m
Romanian: literatură artistică f
Russian: худо́жественная литерату́ра (ru) f (xudóžestvennaja literatúra), беллетри́стика (ru) f (belletrístika), фи́кшен (ru) m (fíkšen), фикшн (ru) m (fikšn)
Scottish Gaelic: uirsgeul m, ficsean m
Slovak: beletria (sk) f, fikcia f
Spanish: ficción (es) f
Swahili: bunilizi
Swedish: fiktion (sv) c, skönlitteratur (sv) c
Tagalog: kathang-isip, bungang-isip
Turkish: kurgu (tr)
Ukrainian: худо́жня літерату́ра f (xudóžnja literatúra), белетри́стика (uk) f (beletrýstyka)
Welsh: ffuglen (cy) f

invention

Azerbaijani: uydurma (az), qondarma (az), qurma (az)
Belarusian: вы́мысел m (výmysjel), вы́думка f (výdumka), фі́кцыя f (fíkcyja)
Bulgarian: изми́слица (bg) f (izmíslica)
Catalan: ficció (ca) f
Czech: fikce (cs) f, výmysl m
Danish: fantasi c, opspind
Dutch: fictie (nl) f
Finnish: sepite (fi), fiktio (fi), taru (fi)
French: fiction (fr) f
German: Erfindung (de) f
Greek: μυθοπλασία (el) f (mythoplasía)
Icelandic: uppspuni m, skáldskapur m
Macedonian: измислица f (izmislica)
Māori: kōrero takuahi
Middle English: ficcioun
Occitan: ficcion (oc) f
Polish: fikcja (pl) f
Portuguese: ficção (pt) f, invenção (pt) f, fingimento (pt) m, (colloquial) invencionice f
Russian: вы́мысел (ru) m (výmysel), вы́думка (ru) f (výdumka), фи́кция (ru) f (fíkcija)
Slovak: výmysel m
Spanish: ficción (es) f
Tagalog: gawa-gawa
Turkish: kurgu (tr)
Ukrainian: ви́гадка f (výhadka), фі́кція f (fíkcija), ви́мисел m (výmysel), ви́гад m (výhad)

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