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Etymology tree 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.

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَيَال (ḵayāl) — literary type
• Arabic: رِوَايَة (riwāya) — literary type
• Belarusian: маста́цкая літарату́ра (mastáckaja litaratúra) — literary type
• Belarusian: бэлетры́стыка (beljetrýstyka) — literary type
• Belarusian: кра́снае пісьме́нства (krásnaje pisʹmjénstva) — literary type
• Bulgarian: белетри́стика (beletrístika) — literary type
• Bulgarian: худо́жествена литерату́ра (hudóžestvena literatúra) — literary type
• Catalan: ficció — literary type
• Cebuano: handurawat — literary type
• Chinese Mandarin: 虛構文學 /虚构文学 (xūgòu wénxué) — literary type
• Chinese Mandarin: 小說 /小说 (xiǎoshuō) — literary type
• Czech: beletrie — literary type
• Danish: fiktion — literary type
• Danish: skønlitteratur — literary type
• Dutch: fictie — literary type
• Esperanto: fikcio — literary type
• Faroese: skaldskapur — literary type
• Finnish: fiktio — literary type
• Finnish: kaunokirjallisuus — literary type
• French: fiction — literary type
• French: belles-lettres — literary type
• Galician: ficción — literary type
• German: Fiktion — literary type
• German: Belletristik — literary type
• Greek: μυθιστόρημα (mythistórima) — literary type
• Ancient Greek: μυθολογία (muthología) — literary type
• Hindi: काल्पनिक (kālpanik) — literary type
• Hungarian: szépirodalom — literary type
• Icelandic: skáldskapur — literary type
• Indonesian: fiksi — literary type
• Irish: ficsean — literary type
• Irish: finscéal — literary type
• Italian: finzione — literary type
• Japanese: フィクション (fikushon) — literary type
• Japanese: 小説 (shōsetsu) — literary type
• Javanese: dedongèngan — literary type
• Kalmyk: урн зокъял (urn zokʺyal) — literary type
• Korean: 소설 (soseol) — literary type
• Korean: 픽션 (piksyeon) — literary type
• Latin: res ficta — literary type
• Latin: fabula — literary type
• Latin: commentum — literary type
• Latvian: daiļliteratūra — literary type
• Latvian: beletristika — literary type
• Lithuanian: grožinė literatūra — literary type
• Macedonian: белетристика (beletristika) — literary type
• Malay: cereka — literary type
• Malay: cerita rekaan — literary type
• Malay: fiksyen — literary type
• Malay: fiksi — literary type
• Māori: pakiwaitara — literary type
• Māori: pakimaero — literary type
• Norwegian Bokmål: fiksjon — literary type
• Norwegian Bokmål: skjønnlitteratur — literary type
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fiksjon — literary type
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skjønnlitteratur — literary type
• Occitan: ficcion — literary type
• Old English: lēasspell — literary type
• Persian: داستانی (dâstâni) — literary type
• Plautdietsch: Romaunschreft — literary type
• Polish: beletrystyka — literary type
• Portuguese: literatura de ficção — literary type
• Portuguese: ficção — literary type
• Portuguese: ficcionismo — literary type
• Romanian: literatură artistică — literary type
• Russian: худо́жественная литерату́ра (xudóžestvennaja literatúra) — literary type
• Russian: беллетри́стика (belletrístika) — literary type
• Russian: фи́кшен (fíkšen) — literary type
• Russian: фикшн (fikšn) — literary type
• Scottish Gaelic: uirsgeul — literary type
• Scottish Gaelic: ficsean — literary type
• Slovak: beletria — literary type
• Slovak: fikcia — literary type
• Spanish: ficción — literary type
• Swahili: bunilizi — literary type
• Swedish: fiktion — literary type
• Swedish: skönlitteratur — literary type
• Tagalog: kathang-isip — literary type
• Tagalog: bungang-isip — literary type
• Turkish: kurgu — literary type
• Ukrainian: худо́жня літерату́ра (xudóžnja literatúra) — literary type
• Ukrainian: белетри́стика (beletrýstyka) — literary type
• Welsh: ffuglen — literary type
• Azerbaijani: uydurma — invention
• Azerbaijani: qondarma — invention
• Azerbaijani: qurma — invention
• Belarusian: вы́мысел (výmysjel) — invention
• Belarusian: вы́думка (výdumka) — invention
• Belarusian: фі́кцыя (fíkcyja) — invention
• Bulgarian: изми́слица (izmíslica) — invention
• Catalan: ficció — invention
• Czech: fikce — invention
• Czech: výmysl — invention
• Danish: fantasi — invention
• Danish: opspind — invention
• Dutch: fictie — invention
• Finnish: sepite — invention
• Finnish: fiktio — invention
• Finnish: taru — invention
• French: fiction — invention
• German: Erfindung — invention
• Greek: μυθοπλασία (mythoplasía) — invention
• Icelandic: uppspuni — invention
• Icelandic: skáldskapur — invention
• Macedonian: измислица (izmislica) — invention
• Māori: kōrero takuahi — invention
• Middle English: ficcioun — invention
• Occitan: ficcion — invention
• Polish: fikcja — invention
• Portuguese: ficção — invention
• Portuguese: invenção — invention
• Portuguese: fingimento — invention
• Portuguese: invencionice — invention
• Russian: вы́мысел (výmysel) — invention
• Russian: вы́думка (výdumka) — invention
• Russian: фи́кция (fíkcija) — invention
• Slovak: výmysel — invention
• Spanish: ficción — invention
• Tagalog: gawa-gawa — invention
• Turkish: kurgu — invention
• Ukrainian: ви́гадка (výhadka) — invention
• Ukrainian: фі́кція (fíkcija) — invention
• Ukrainian: ви́мисел (výmysel) — invention
• Ukrainian: ви́гад (výhad) — invention