English word image comes from Proto-Indo-European *iem-, Latin -ago, Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-, Latin *im, and later Proto-Italic *imā (A copy.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*iem- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | similarity, resemblance |
-ago | Latin (lat) | Suffixed to nouns, forms nouns describing objects, plants, and animals. |
*h₂eym- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
*im | Latin (lat) | |
*imā | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | A copy. |
imago | Latin (lat) | (art) depiction. (rhetoric) comparison. Ancestral image. Conception, thought. Echo. Ghost, apparition. Image, imitation, likeness, statue, representation. Reminder. Semblance, appearance, shadow. |
image | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | Image (likeness). Image (mental or imagined representation). Image (pictorial representation). Sight (something which one sees). Statue (of a person). |
image | French (fr) | (TV, film) frame. Picture, image. |
ymaige | Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (frm) | Image (depiction). |
image | English (en) | (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image, executable image and image copy.). (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.. (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of [...] |