imitation

See also: Imitation

English

Etymology

From Middle English imitacioun, from Middle French imitacion, from Old French imitacion, from Latin imitatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmɪˈteɪ̯ʃən/, [ɪmɪˈtʰeɪ̯ʃən]

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: im‧i‧ta‧tion

Noun

imitation (countable and uncountable, plural imitations)

1. The act of imitating.

   a pale imitation

   a realistic imitation

   in imitation of

2. (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.

   imitation leather

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “act of imitating”): creation

Derived terms

• autoimitation
• counterimitation
• imitational
• imitation game
• imitationism
• imitationist
• imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
• imitation lace
• imitation vanilla
• non-imitation
• overimitation
• self-imitation

Translations

act of imitating

• Arabic: تَقْلِيد m (taqlīd)
• Asturian: imitación f
• Belarusian: іміта́цыя f (imitácyja)
• Bulgarian: имитация (bg) f (imitacija)
• Catalan: imitació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 模擬 / 模拟 (zh) (mónǐ), 模仿 (zh) (mófǎng)

• Czech: napodobení n, imitace (cs) f
• Danish: imitation c, efterligning (da) c
• Dutch: navolging (nl) f, imitatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: imito, imitado
• Finnish: jäljittely (fi), imitaatio (fi)
• French: imitation (fr) f
• Galician: imitación (gl) f
• German: Imitation (de) f, Nachahmung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μίμησις f (mímēsis)

• Hebrew: חִקּוּי (he) m (ẖiqqúy)
• Hindi: अनुकृति करना (anukŕti karnā), अनुकरण करना (anukraṇ karnā)
• Hungarian: utánzás (hu)
• Indonesian: peniruan, taklid (id)
• Japanese: 模倣 (ja) (もほう, mohō), 真似 (ja) (まね, mane)
• Latin: imitatio f
• Norwegian: herming m or f

  Bokmål: imitasjon m

  Nynorsk: imitasjon m

• Old English: onhyring f
• Persian: تقلید (fa) (taqlid)
• Polish: imitacja (pl) f, imitatorstwo n, naśladownictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: imitação (pt) f, arremedo (pt) m
• Romanian: imitare (ro) f
• Russian: имита́ция (ru) f (imitácija), подража́ние (ru) n (podražánije)
• Spanish: imitación (es) f
• Telugu: అనుకరణ (te) (anukaraṇa)
• Turkish: taklit (tr), öykünme (tr), öyküntü (tr)
• Ukrainian: іміта́ція (uk) f (imitácija)

copy

• Asturian: imitación f
• Bulgarian: копие (bg) n (kopie)
• Catalan: imitació (ca) f
• Crimean Tatar: taqlit
• Czech: napodobenina (cs) f, imitace (cs) f
• Danish: imitation c, efterligning (da) c
• Dutch: imitatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kopio
• Finnish: kopio (fi), jäljitelmä (fi)
• French: imitation (fr) f
• Galician: imitación (gl) f
• German: Kopie (de) f, Imitat (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μίμησις f (mímēsis), μίμημα n (mímēma)

• Hebrew: חִקּוּי (he) m (ẖiqqúy)
• Hindi: अनुकृति (hi) f (anukŕti), अनुकरण (hi) m (anukraṇ), प्रतिलिपि (hi) f (pratilipi)
• Hungarian: utánzat (hu), mű- (hu)
• Italian: imitazione (it) f
• Japanese: 模造品 (ja) (もぞうひん, mozōhin)
• Latin: imitamentum n
• Norwegian: herming m or f

  Bokmål: imitasjon m

  Nynorsk: imitasjon m

• Polish: imitacja (pl) f, kopia (pl) f
• Portuguese: imitação (pt) f
• Romanian: imitare (ro) f, imitație (ro) f
• Slovak: imitácia f
• Spanish: imitación (es) f
• Turkish: taklit (tr), öykünme (tr), öyküntü (tr), imitasyon (tr)

French

Etymology

From Middle French imitation, from Old French imitacion, from Latin imitātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mi.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

imitation f (plural imitations)

1. imitation
   • 1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante‎^[1], page 1:

     C'est que, rompant avec l'imitation des siècles précédents, ils retournent à l'éternelle inspiratrice, à la nature . . .

     For, breaking with the imitation of previous centuries, they return to the eternal inspirer—to nature . . .

Related terms

• imiter

Descendants

• → Dutch: imitatie
  • Afrikaans: imitasie
  • → Indonesian: imitasi

Further reading

• “imitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012