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English word imagine comes from Proto-Indo-European *aim-, Latin *im, Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-, Middle French ymaige (Image (depiction).)
*aim- (Proto-Indo-European)
*im (Latin)
*h₂eym- (Proto-Indo-European)
ymaige (Middle French)
Image (depiction).
*imā (Proto-Italic)
A copy.
imago (Latin)
(art) depiction. (rhetoric) comparison. Ancestral image. Conception, thought. Echo. Ghost, apparition. Image, imitation, likeness, statue, representation. Reminder. Semblance, appearance, shadow.
image (Old French)
Image (likeness). Image (mental or imagined representation). Image (pictorial representation). Sight (something which one sees). Statue (of a person).
image (French)
(TV, film) frame. Picture, image.
imaginor (Latin)
I imagine, conceive.
imaginer (Old French)
To contemplate; to think about. To depict in the form of an image. To examine; to look at.
imagine (English)
(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.