English word imagine comes from Proto-Indo-European *aim-, Latin *im, Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-, Middle French ymaige (Image (depiction).)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*aim- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
*im | Latin (lat) | |
*h₂eym- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
ymaige | Middle French (frm) | Image (depiction). |
*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 (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. |
imaginor | Latin (lat) | I imagine, conceive. |
imaginer | Old French (fro) | To contemplate; to think about. To depict in the form of an image. To examine; to look at. |
imagine | English (en) | (intransitive) To use one's imagination.. (transitive) To assume.. (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind.. (transitive) To conjecture or guess.. (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.. (transitive, obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise. |