imitate

English

Etymology

From Latin imitatus, past participle of imitari (“to copy, portray, imitate”), from a deponent frequentive root *im, whence also imago (“a copy, image”), see image.

Pronunciation

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Verb

imitate (third-person singular simple present imitates, present participle imitating, simple past and past participle imitated)

1. To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
2. To copy.

Synonyms

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Related terms

• imitation
• imitative
• imitator

Translations

to follow as a model

Catalan: imitar (ca) Czech: napodobit (cs) Dutch: nabootsen (nl), imiteren (nl) Estonian: matkima (et) Galician: imitar (gl) Hungarian: utánoz (hu), imitál (hu) Italian: imitare (it)

Japanese: 倣う (ja) (ならう, narau) Polish: naśladować (pl) Spanish: imitar (es) Swahili: kuiga (sw) Swedish: imitera (1), imitera, härma (2) Telugu: అనుకరించు (anukarimchu) Vietnamese: nhái (vi)

External links

• imitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• imitate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Italian

Verb

imitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of imitare
2. second-person plural imperative of imitare
3. Feminine plural of imitato

Anagrams

• ematiti

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Latin

Participle

imitāte

1. vocative masculine singular of imitātus