Image etymology

English

English word image comes from Proto-Indo-European *iem-, Latin -ago, Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-, Latin *im, and later Proto-Italic *imā (A copy.)

Detailed word origin of image

Dictionary entry Language Definition
*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 [...]

Words with the same origin as image

Descendants of *iem-

imagery imagination imagine