Imagine etymology

English

English word imagine comes from Proto-Indo-European *aim-, Latin *im, Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-, Middle French ymaige (Image (depiction).)

Detailed word origin of imagine

Dictionary entry Language Definition
*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.

Words with the same origin as imagine

Descendants of *aim-

image imagery imagination