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imago.

likeness, image, appearance; statue; idea; echo; ghost, phantom;

5 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ɪˈmaː.ɡoː]Classical-Latin[iˈmaː.ɡo]
  1. image, imitation, likeness, statue, representation

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  2. ancestral image

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  3. ghost, apparition

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  4. semblance, appearance, shadow

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  5. echo

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  6. conception, thought

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  7. reminder

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  8. comparison

    declension-3 · rhetoric
  9. depiction

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Where this word comes from

From Proto-Italic *imā + -āgō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym- (“to imitate”). Cognate with imitor, aemulus, Old English emn, efn (“equal, level, even”). More at even.

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