imago

Latin

noun
Definitions
  • image, imitation, likeness, statue, representation
  • ancestral image
  • ghost, apparition
  • semblance, appearance, shadow
  • echo
  • conception, thought
  • reminder
  • (rhetoric) comparison
  • (art) depiction

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *imā (copy) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym- (imitate, likeness, similarity, resemblance, identical), *h₂eym- (imitate, likeness, similarity, resemblance, identical).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₂eym-

Gloss

imitate, likeness, similarity, resemblance, identical

Concept
Semantic Field

Cognition

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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