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English word imagination comes from Proto-Indo-European *aiem-, French image ((TV, film) frame. Picture, image.), Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-, Latin *im

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*aiem- (Proto-Indo-European)

image (French)

(TV, film) frame. Picture, image.

*h₂eym- (Proto-Indo-European)

*im (Latin)

*imā (Proto-Italic)

A copy.

imaginem (Latin)

imaginor (Latin)

I imagine, conceive.

imaginatio (Latin)

Imagination.

imaginacion (Old French)

imagination (English)

A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.. Creativity; resourcefulness.. Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.. The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.

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