figment
131figure — [13] Figure comes via Old French from Latin figūra ‘form, shape, figure’, a derivative of the same base (*fig ) as produced fingere ‘make, shape’ (whence English effigy, faint, feign, and fiction). Many of the technical Latin uses of the word,… …
132fig·ment — /ˈfıgmənt/ noun, pl ments [count] : something produced by the imagination : something that does not really exist usually used in the phrase figment of your imagination I thought I heard her voice, but I guess it was just a figment of my… …
