imago

Meaning

  1. (declension-3) image, imitation, likeness, statue, representation
  2. (declension-3) ancestral image
  3. (declension-3) ghost, apparition
  4. (declension-3) semblance, appearance, shadow
  5. (declension-3) echo
  6. (declension-3) conception, thought
  7. (declension-3) reminder
  8. (declension-3, rhetoric) comparison
  9. (declension-3) depiction

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ɪˈmaː.ɡoː]
Etymology

From Proto-Italic *imā + -āgō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym- (“to imitate”). Cognate with imitor, aemulus, Old English emn, efn (“equal, level, even”). More at even.

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