1926, Hans Christian Andersen, “Konkurso de saltado [Competition of Jumping]”, in Zamenhofa, Ludoviko Lazaro, transl.,Fabeloj [Fairy Tales], volume 2 (fiction), Parizo: Esperanta Centra Librejo, published1926:
vorto uzata laŭ lafigura senco ―a word used in thefigurative sense
2004 August 5, “Marcos” et al. kontribuintoj de Vikipedio, “Nuanco”, inVikipedio : La libera enciklopedio[2] (encyclopedia), Vikimedio, retrieved20 March 2025:
1288, E. Duro Peña (ed.),El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil. Ourense: Instituto de Estudios Orensanos "Padre Feijóo", page 260:
hun privilegio seelado de hun seelo pendente eno qual seelo era de hua partefigura de rey encavalgado en seu cavalo teente ena mao destra una espada e da outra parte erafigura de león
a privilege, sealed with a hanging seal, in which seal it was on one side thefigure of a king riding his horse, holding a sword in his right hand, and on the other side afigure of a lion
1370, R. Lorenzo, editor,Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page438:
Os çenoçéfalis an o rrostro moy longo enfigura de cã; et nõ falã cõmo homes, mays ladrã cõmo cães, pero que an todo seu siso entrego.
The Cynocephali have a very long face, in theshape of a dog['s face]; and they don't speak as men, but they bark as dogs do, but still they have the whole of their intelligence
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “figura”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
figura in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
1) obsolete *) theaccusative corresponds with either thegenitive (sg) ornominative (pl) **) thecomitative is formed by adding the suffix-ka? or-kä? to thegenitive.
“figura”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“figura”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"figura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“figura”, inDitzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda [Online Dictionary of the Sardinian Language and Culture] (in Sardinian, Italian, and English),Autonomous Region of Sardinia [Sardinian:Regione Autonoma della Sardegna]
(general sense) asilhouette or any image of a person, animal, object or scene resembling someone or something (even of similar but not identical features).
